THEME: Croatia today, social impoverishment, tycoonisation, corruption, the diaspora, refugees, war veterans, power, opposition, "little gods", love.
The text is dedicated to Mladen Kerstner and Kreso Golik.
N° OF CHARACTERS: 14 (7 male, 7 female, a music ensemble)
N° OF ACTS: 2
SETTING: Skanjcevo, a settlement in the Podgora coastal region
TIME: Today
WRITTEN IN: 2001

SUMMARY:
A rich Canadian industrialist returns to his native place to marry the love of his youth. He finds her happily married to a friend they had in common, a poor man, an unemployed war veteran. He tries to buy her with money and the help of the local power elite and not so elite, but true love is stronger and the repatriate tycoon fails in his efforts. So they start looking for a new consort for him. His wealth and power attract a host of candidates, but the Canadian finally decides on a widow, a Bosnian refugee with seven children.

The play was premiered at the Jastrebarsko City Theatre on June 14 2001, and won the City of Jastrebarsko prize for 2001.

NINO SKRABE (Jastrebarsko 1947), graduated in Comparative Literature and German Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. The founder in 1968, and director, of the Jastrebarsko City Theatre, for which he writes and does dramatisations. He is an author, journalist and book editor. His published books: Western (1979), Four Christmas Plays (1990), My (Un)Known Fellow Citizens (1993), For a Kuna of Hope (1995), DVD Jastrebarsko (1997), Macek Close-Up (1999), and Above the Rainbow (2000). He is a permanent external associate of the Film Encyclopdia. He has written more than twenty plays in collaboration with T.Mujicic and B.Senker, and they have been published in five books. Since 1986 he has also been writing independently (over twenty works). Skrabe also writes scripts for documentaries and feature films (Golden Arena prize in Pula 1996 for the script of Fergismajniht/Don't Forget Me). he has been awarded the Ivan Filipovic prize for systematic promotion of the theatre art among children and young people (1998).