It all ends here

Veteran director Rajko Grlić, whose last outing, The Constitution, won a slew of awards in 2016 and 2017, including the Grand Prize of the Americas at the Montreal World Film Festival, where it world-premiered, has pacted with Mike Downey once again to act as producer on It All Ends Here. Grlić is reteaming with The Constitution co-writer Ante Tomić for this Interfilm production.

Dinko Horvat (62), a rich and powerful tycoon, was found not guilty of a double murder. The court has decided that him shooting the two men – his former employees, who, armed, entered his backyard – was an act of self-defence. Still, Maks Pinter (49), Horvat’s lawyer, is not satisfied with the acquittal. In the courtroom, Maks sees Nina Štefančić (48), the love of his youth, whose father killed himself long time ago because of Horvat, and, being an extraordinarily smart and efficient but also a depressive man, something breaks inside of him. His job, reputation and money, benefits and accolades, suddenly seem worthless.

Later that night, while celebrating the big triumph, drunk Maks calls Horvat a murderer. By stating that Horvat shot innocent, unarmed men, he embarrasses him in front of his guests, in front of the Croatian Prime Minister, Horvat’s close friend, and representatives of the church.  

What comes next is Maks’s downfall; he loses everything he was building for years. His wife leaves him, he parts ways with his business partner, Horvat sues him for slander, and Maks ends up in prison. And yet, nothing seems to get to him. He reconnects with Nina, both romantically and pragmatically. The attraction between them never faded away, but now they also share the ambition to expose Horvat and reveal all the foul play behind the success of one of the most powerful tycoons in Croatia.

Together with Horvat’s victims, the poor, deprived and humiliated workers, Maks and Nina are trying to renew the double murder lawsuit. Naturally, Horvat is not going to let that happen without putting up a fight. He strongly responds to their attacks. Besides, it will soon become clear that neither Maks nor Nina are completely flawless. Because of Horvat, both of them have done something indelibly disgraceful.

The story ends in the only possible way, in the place of one the Horvat’s crimes, in a bloody and disturbing way.