This directorial debut by Serbian actress Mirjana Karanović examines the life of a woman who discovers that her husband was involved in war crimes during the 1990s conflict. Milena’s Vlada is an authoritative father and pillar of the local community, but he is also a patronising husband and the kind of man who respects women merely as efficient homemakers. The family home, however, starts to fall apart when Vlada stops communicating with his daughter, who doesn’t share his nationalistic views. A Good Wife is not a film about war; it’s a story about families, Milena’s own and the many like hers in the neighbourhood. In each of them is a devoted wife who is willing to sacrifice everything for her husband; above all, she knows how to keep silent. Karanović isn’t seeking to depict ostentatious dramatic conflicts; instead the pivot of the film is her own face, which reflects the gradual loss of family certainties and accompanies the viewer through the story like a slowly but irrevocably changing landscape. Although small in scale, the drama bears witness to society as a whole as it takes in the actions of a single woman.