Plot: Jovan Ćirilov, the playwright of the Yugoslav Drama Theater of which Andrić was the chairman of the management board, is asking for permission to dramatize the Cursed Courtyard. Andrić remembers 1914 and his prison days and the time when, released from prison, he spent his confinement with his mother in Ovčarev and the Guča Gora monastery, hanging out with the friars