Down Town

On a normal friday afternoon in the centre of Zázrivá life is full of everyday small-town life. Dogs bark, people move from their house to the shop and later the bar. The unemployed pay their weekly duty to clean up the cemetery. Suddenly the loudspeakers attached to the streetlights everywhere in the town start to produce the static sound of classical music. Followed by the announcement that 83 year old Susana changed her earthly life for the eternal. Tomorrow at two o'clock the funeral will take place. The concrete pillars by the side of the road wear posters of the upcoming national elections in far away Bratislava. Ironically enough this place is known as U Stredie, meaning something like 'in the middle', referring to politics in communist times.