Doctor Mišić comes to the Jabučevački cacstle, a place known as haunted by ghosts and wraiths. He's stubborn supporter of common sense and logic, taking all assumptions about transcendent world and fourth dimension to be silly. However...

Doctor who lived at the edge of a swamp was found murdered with his neck slaughtered. Investigator, together with a jury made ​​up of local farmers, comes into the doctor's cabin and tries to discover the cause of his death. The two sources may be of any help: a diary of the doctor, and the testimony of a journalist, the doctor's friend, who was with him at the moment of death. Based on the Ambrose Bierce novel with the same name.

1970年瑞士洛迦诺国际电影节最佳影片金豹奖. A young teenage girl is sent to an orphanage when she becomes too much for her mother to handle. Lilika (Dragana Kalaba) is sent to the institution after her mother (Tamara Miletic) discovers she is stealing fruit from the local market. She is very protective of her younger brother and a mentally challenged friend, and takes a liking to her counselor (Branko Plesa). She dreams of having an ordinary life and escaping the juvenile home she regards as a prison. Lilika fantasizes about her future as she hopes for a way out of the orphanage. Eleven years old girl, daughter of a woman affected by war, feels she is unneeded in life of her foster father and her mother. From cruel environment and twisted family, the judge and the jury will find House of correction as her only way out, which she doesn't regard as new home, but as penal servitude for children.