Jonah Ludovic is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zoo. He joins a skeleton crew that includes an elderly guard and a veterinarian. Their purpose: to keep the animals alive until help arrives from an international zoological mission.

• Sam Neill
• Gina McKee
• Ulrich Thomsen
• Om Puri
• Marek Vašut
• Javor Loznica
• Serdjan Simeonović
• Arnošt Proschek