Peter Musevski was something of Damjan Kozole's acteur fétiche, appearing in almost all of his films since Rezervni deli (2003), which, again, marked a breakthrough for both of them. Kozole began work on Pero in 2019, when it should have been something like a therapeutic journey through Musevski's fears and sorrows – a film of various registers and aesthetics whose diversity of approaches would mirror the many sides of its subject. But then, on March 18th 2020, right at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Musevski died by suicide.