This program is a portrait of Slobodan Milosevic and Mira Markovic, the Serbian leader and his powerful wife, by Phil Rees, investigative journalist and narrator.
The film analyzes the following:
- their lives in Pozarevac, Serbia, where they first met
- the character of Milosevic and Markovic, through interviews with friends and acquaintances
- their relationship while students in Belgrade
- Markovic's past and character
- chronology of Milosevic's rise through the ranks of the Communist Party under the wing of his mentor and friend Ivan Stambolic.
- Milosevic's initial trip to Kosovo Polje in April1987 and rise to power
- Kosovo autonomy revoked in 1989
- Markovic's political party JUL and her influence on Milosevic
- regional elections in 1997 (?) and the months of protests in Belgrade and their effect on the Zajedno coalition.
-how Milosevic maintains power through the continuing external crises: the wars of the former Yugoslavia, the Dayton Peace Agreement, and the NATO bombing.
Featured interviews: Dusan Mitevic, former Director of TV Belgrade; Ivan Stambolic, former President of Serbia; Slavko »uruvija, slain journalist and newspaper editor; Seska Stanojlovic, former high school colleague in Pozarevac; Nebojsa Popov, Communist Party Member and Belgrade University colleague; Miroslav Solevic, Serbian Nationalist Leader; Nebojsa »ovic, former Mayor of Belgrade; Zoran Djindzic, Opposition leader and former Mayor of Belgrade; Vuk Draskovic, Opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister; Milo Djukanovic, President of Montenegro; and Bishop Artemije, Serbian Orthodox Church.