Due to fighting against the Germans and the Ustashas, the partisans in central Bosnia decide to strike the salt pans, and take the much needed salt for the people and army. After serious attacks and heavy losses, they complete their mission successfully.
After the war, a partisan hospital is set up in a monastery, with the nuns working as nurses. A beautiful young nun, Maria, becomes very fond of the partisan leader, Commissar Nenad.
Somewhere in Bosnia in 1943 between the fourth and fifth enemy offensives column partisans withdrew across a river to free territory. At the moment of crossing the river, a group of Chetniks suddenly attack a column of partisans. In this violent attacks, a lot of partisan dies. Manage to cross the river and so be saved from bullets, only few partisans as a young partisan Radojica young nurse partisan Milica. Radojica and Milica cut off from his brigade, moving in their difficult and arduous hike over the mountains in the hope that they will meet again with the brigade. In this wandering, they will encounter a series of tragic-comic situations. Since the departure of Radojice in prison and subsequent flight to several grisly encounter with the Chetniks, to find the brigade and brave and daring capture of the entire Chetnik detachments and Chetnik duke who was responsible for the attack on the partisans.
По одноименному роману Грозданы Олуич. Родители Слободана разошлись. Каждый из них завел новую семью, а Слободан в обоих семьях чувствует себя чужим. Единственное его утешение - любимая девушка Рашида. Но ее отец настроен против Слободана и отправляет дочь в другой город. Слободан, для которого любовь к Рашиде стала смыслом жизни, отправляется на поиски любимой.
Этот фильм составлен из трёх киноновелл («Отец», «Болото» и «Водоворот»), объединённых одной общей мыслью, одним общим чувством его создателей — ненавистью к фашизму, к развязанной фашистскими захватчиками войне.