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Nano Mazut, a well-known Bosnian poet and essayist with Canadian citizenship, author of a series of poems called Dogs on the Lake, falls into a coma. His brain, shut off from external stimuli, creates a parallel world in which memories are intertwined with creations of the imagination, the past becomes the future, and the dead from past eras walk alongside the living, creating a phantasmagoric procession that makes its way through the turmoil of the Balkans.

Arief Nevzeti, a nondescript receptionist who finds the poet unconscious in his hotel room, feels an inexplicable kinship with him and decides to pretend to be his relative. In order to justify his frequent visits to the hospital to his neighbour, he invents the story of his seriously ill cousin Besa and tells his friend about her life adventures every day, drawing inspiration from his passion for Dubrovnik, Renaissance literature and a young hospital worker.

Both narrators boldly plunge into the likely and unlikely stories, whose plots paradoxically intertwine and develop in a mirror-like manner. Dogs on the Lake is a journey through the labyrinth of biographies of prominent figures, nameless heroes, and restless souls. It is a story about loneliness, searching for and realising your life priorities, and about the anchors of the past that will find you no matter how hard you try to hide from them.