After ten years in Germany, Armin returns to Bosnia. He’s just got married and wants to surprise his father Fudo, but he is nowhere to be found. Neighbours say that he has been arrested, nobody knows why. The papers say that he is a suspect for a war crime back in the 1990s. While a group of friends tries to discover what Fudo is accused of, Armin learns more about his father. As the conversations get more and more heated, old wounds and resentments from the war resurface, threatening to ruin not only the celebration, but also their friendship and communal spirit.
“Labour Day is one of the few holidays left over from "those" pre-war times. While without any religious or national attributes, it is characterised by powerful symbolism in a particular sociopolitical context. /.../ It is a remnant from socialism when the holiday was observed to prove that workers’ perfectly good lives leave them with nothing better to do but barbecue lamb and make merry on May Day. This was, of course, a false but very well-organized tableau which made you easily believe that you lived in a working-class heaven. But even if you had realized it was all just manipulation and a lie, you couldn't say so because of the dangerous system, the police state. So, I understand that the workers were either in a dreamland or possessed by fear, but I don't understand the state of things today. Today, when people are literally starving, when workers are completely rightless, the lambs are still barbecued.” (Pjer Žalica)