Three prisoners, Combe from Rijeka, Menso from Bosnia, and Bogart from Belgrade, escape from prison. Their final destination is the city of their dreams - Hamburg. They temporarily part ways and agree to meet at the train station in Zagreb. First, each of them goes to his hometown. From there on, we follow three separate stories. In the first, Combe, in the shady harbor district of Rijeka, tries to get back at his former crime partner, Mrvi, who turned him in to the police. In the second story, we witness Mensa's relationship with his wife Riza and their children in a small Bosnian village. The third story depicts Bogart's love affair with a young teacher in a Belgrade suburb. Afterwards, at the train station in Zagreb, Bogart finds out from the newspaper that the police caught his friends. At the last minute, he changes the original plan.
A village blacksmith Sekula, hard-muscled but soft-hearted, has terrible luck when it comes to love. Many women pass through his house - a local spinster of ill health, a belly dancer, a veterinarian experienced in the castration of bulls a singing star-to-be - but stay just long enough to give birth to another child, only to then run away.
Berberin Hamdo
Defender os ideais stalinistas logo após o rompimento do marechal Tito, líder da então Iugoslávia, com o Stalin, ditador russo, não era a melhor das ideias. Após a publicação de uma charge inoportuna de sua autoria, Mesa é enviado para um campo de trabalhos forçados, uma prisão longe de sua família – que acredita que o pai está em uma “viagem de negócios”. Desnorteado, o jovem Malik, filho de Mesa, tenta lidar com a crise que sua família e seu país enfrentam da melhor maneira possível, enquanto começa a descobrir o amor.
Škembe
Um jovem cresce em Sarajevo na década de 1960, sob a sombra de seu bom pai, que está doente, e fica atraído pelo mundo dos pequenos criminosos. Estes contratam-no para esconder uma jovem prostituta e ele apaixona-se por ela.
The story published in 1921 follows Corkan, general scapegoat in Visegrad, a figure of fun who himself joins in the mockery. The object of his obsession is physically inaccessible: a tightrope walker in an Austrian circus company visiting Visegrad.
