Batko becomes an informant for the communist secret police. He performs his duties with great zeal and yet, he is dismissed, as the changing political situation in the late 80s renders him useless. The bureaucratic attitude of the State towards his conspiratorial genius aggravates him deeply. His experience with clandestine work makes him recognize a simple fact: the system of the political police is flawed in its very nature of being ironclad secretive. Its operations could be mimicked and its structures duplicated by rogue individuals posing as agents. Now, it would take Batko what he amply has - cunning and fierceness - to masquerade as an agent and mock the state security apparatus that has rejected him. He creates a phantom secret-police department and benefits from that. The provocations that spur the plot forward in a slew of hilarious, yet ghoulish absurdities and sudden turns come from the workings of the conspiratorial mind of a former agent turned psychopathic schemer.

I would like to construct this movie as an elaborate fusion of political psycho-thriller, grotesque, absurdist social satire, and black comedy. I am aiming at vibrant screen work with sharp style and provocative power -one that would effectively and even painfully penetrate the social debate about the nature of post communist transition in South-Eastern Europe. I would like to create highly stylized dystopian world accompanied, as counterpoint, by thrilling, intense, and emotionally engaging interpretation of the story. Human aspect of the theme and stylized aesthetics should get along and go together if well proportioned and balanced. ?Zincograph? will be shot predominantly in low-key light with rather unconventional camera angles, 35 mm. film, aspect ratio - 2,39: 1, filtered color.