My Father In Cat's Skin

Jack’s father comes back as Betty. With a pair of green eyes, Buddha belly, smiling, and sporting a fur coat. As if it were his birth suit, it fits him like a glove. He comes back as she, a fat, gentle cat, to teach Jack that Zen equals Zero, and show him how living is simple, not doing much and not asking much. But one is to first lead a dog’s life on a short leash and eat a whole duvet… As Betty is born into an environment rich with natural simplicity, becoming the embodiment of a harmonious calmness, it helps Jack face an unexpectedly large amount of peace and emptiness that surrounds him in a secluded area on the fringe of a city. Reminiscing Jack goes back in time when his father died and they flew back to the old country together for the first time for his burial. There, after twenty years, Jack meets with a few relatives and old friends that survived a few gruesome years in besieged Sarajevo. To keep themselves warm, ironically they cut down most of the trees, as opposed to the Deuteronomy 20:19, where the attackers were asked to refrain from it...