An eminent and respected merchant has a problem with gambling, alternately winning and losing until the fateful night when he loses everything. He decides to kill himself, but his wife stops him. Kind words make him go with his son to the church to pray and start new life from the beginning. Based on a novel by famous Serbian writer Laza Lazarevic.

The exploits of a depressed architect in Belgrade as he wanders about searching for the future in a land where the future no longer exists. Handsome Nikola is in his mid-thirties. He earned the nickname Champ because he used to race speedboats. He makes a decent living as a free-lance architect and his apartment is spacious and comfortable. Ana is attracted by the Champ's good looks and apparent prosperity. He is always pensive though; even when he is out drinking at the local clubs with his companions he cannot help but brood about the state of Belgrade. Though the city appears fairly normal on the outside, the presence of the war is signalled when a reluctant conscript in the army is dragged away.

A con leaves the prison with a plan to deceive people by entering financial bank business.

博什科.西米奇是贝尔格莱德某警察局的调查员。他有五个孩子，分别来自他以前的四次失败婚姻。他的四个前妻都是既成功又自主的女性，因为工作过于忙碌，没有时间照顾孩子，四位母亲都把孩子交给了父亲。身为警察的博什科要同时照顾几个孩子，这使他忙得晕头转向……