Lipstick

Lipstick strives to depict the inner conflicts of the protagonist Vesna as subjectively as possible Vesna apparently unmoved by the armed conflicts in her homeland Yugoslavia leads a happygolucky life A form of denial the causes of which should be explored Her visit in Budapest and therefore her compromise with her possibly true though repressed identity evokes a feeling of happiness for a short time The next morning reality catches up with her again She is taken off the train and is forced since her passport and Austrian visa have both expired to assume a new identity Despite the futility of her undertaking she refuses to make a statement concerning her person while in jail What remains is the memory of a shortlived feeling of emotional success by delaying the course of events The suggestion to consider a denial while in a condition of statelessness