Uma noite em um restaurante italiano. Recepcionados pela tolerante e tranquila Flora, vários tipos de pessoas de classe média - grandes e pequenos, jovens e velhos, fregueses e turistas, casados e solteiros - chegam para jantar, conversar, discutir, comemorar, fazer confissões, ouvir as discussões de outras pessoas, interrompê-las, cantar, ouvir música e aproveitar a vida. A câmera, assim como as pessoas, se move constantemente de mesa em mesa, na cozinha e na sala de trás para observar os pequenos ciúmes e frustrações da equipe - até que duas horas depois é hora de todos irem embora para casa.
The Prague Grand Orchestra travels by train to a music festival in Yugoslavia. Only the singer Sona Klánová missed the departure. In the meantime, she managed to buy a ticket to Belgrade at the air-terminal from Mrs Navrátilová, who couldn't make the trip. In the meantime, the orchestra conductor is beside himself with despair. He phoned to Prague from the border, and when he realized that Sona had left her house in a taxi, he thought that she would catch up with them by the road. The orchestra delayed the train's departure with an improvised concert for the custom officers and the passengers.
Italian director Giueseppe DeSantis was the creative force behind this Yugoslavian "slice of life" drama. The title translates as The Year-Long Road; accordingly, the plot concerns a joint, voluntary effort between Italy and Yugoslavia to construct a highway along the countries' Naturally, this animosity wreaks havoc on the various Romeo-Juliet romances in the region. All is resolved when oil is discovered on one of the islands. An American oil company is finally able to establish détente between the warring factions, smoothing the path for the long-delayed marriages of three young couples.
An engineer and his wife move to Zenica where the construction of the first plants is taking place, during highly progressive industrialization of the country. Her dreams are not in accordance with the reality, which makes their marriage impossible to function.
