Expediter

In a society that proudly declares the end of its police state, Josip Pekic’s life is upended by a midnight knock that echoes a trauma from his childhood. Two expressionless agents—zombie‑like enforcers of a regime that insists it has moved beyond oppression—drag him from his modest apartment into a black limousine, demanding his immediate compliance without revealing any charge. The encounter forces Josip to confront the lingering shadows of his father’s execution, a man now celebrated as a posthumous hero of the former dictatorship.

As Josip rides through the quiet streets of Zagurest, he wrestles with a mixture of inherited guilt, reluctant pride, and a bewildering sense of being watched by an invisible bureaucracy. The narrative follows his uneasy navigation of a world that claims liberty while the ghosts of past terror still whisper in its corridors, inviting listeners to ponder how history, memory, and personal identity intertwine in the aftermath of authoritarian rule.