LABINA MITEVSKA

Is an outsider in all obvious/superficial ways: a smoker and non-practicing Muslim woman. She is illiterate and a victim, displaced by gender and the era she exist in and the expectations that come with this. Between her gum chewing and chain smoking, she works hard, dreams and seldomly smiles, but she has a precise idea about her future and that of her son. There is certain comfort in who she is and what she presents, the comfort is in the simplicity of her daily existence. Things happen linear in her life, there is natural progression between a desire, an idea, and action. Nothing is complicated but everything is hard, she follows society rules as it is the only thing she knows, her instinct tells her otherwise and it is her instinct or desire to survive that will move her forward. Solemnly by her character traits she manages to overpower the decisions and ways of the cultural restrains that her society has put upon her. We do feel from the beginning that she is the winner, by circumstances, by sheers will or by chance she must be the future.