In a futuristic, antiseptic food factory, workers select healthy chicks, while the rejects are carried along a conveyor belt until they are crushed by a mallet and drop into a garbage bin. A single black chick appears among the yellow and is shoved toward the garbage bin. Before the mallet strikes, the gasping chick rebels.
"Aleksandar Ilić za svoje je filmove u zemlji i inostranstvu dobio čak sedamdeset i dve nagrade. Film "Malj", kao nezaobilazno autorovo ostvarenje, smatra se jednim od vrhova "beogradske dokumentarne škole."
