Figa is a novel of interwoven stories about Aleksandar and Jana, Vesna and Safet, Jadran and Anja. And others. But above all about Jadran, who, from a mosaic of stories, composes a great story of connections between them in order to understand his own. Because he does not understand why Anja left their life together, he tries to explain why, allegedly with the help of a suspicious bottle of medicine, his grandfather Aleksandar left. He tries to understand the departure of his grandmother Jana, the disintegration of her memories, her forgetfulness, her life in the world of dementia. Jadran tries to understand the departure of his father Safet, his disappearance from Ljubljana in the first year of the Balkan War. And his mother Vesna, her inexplicable anger at his grandfather, her silent disappointment in his father. From fragments of memories and behavior, Jadran composes a great story of the past in order to understand his present. But when the story is composed, the causes explained, the motives thought out and the motives revealed, he realizes that the past does not absolve us of responsibility for the future.