Book by the famous journalist Andrei Shary, in 1993-1996. - Radio Liberty's own correspondent in the Balkans (Zagreb), - about the last decade of the history of the former Yugoslavia, about the collapse of its socio-political myths. How does the myth of the great leader appear and disappear? Where does the need to rewrite history come from? What is patriotism in the era of national wars? What is the logic of the theory of national exceptionalism? What impact does the crisis of public consciousness have on cinema, music, literature, and sports? `After the Rain` - reflections on a country that once managed to `live under socialism as under capitalism`, and then became the scene of the most brutal European war of the second half of the 20th century.