When Dr. Lovro Furato accidentally fails to treat the injured eye of the peasant Barisa Surac, the whole silent conflict between the two worlds, rich urban and backward rural, will emerge to the surface.
Deals with the father-son conflict in a farming family. The two never see eye to eye especially over the way the farm is run. The boy opts for a different way of life and also falls in love with a dumb girl to the horror of his family.
A projection of the situation in monarchist Yugoslavia after the infamous Proclamation and the Law on the Protection of the State, when repression and police violence stifled any progressive idea. Inspired by some literary works of Miroslav Krleza.
At the very end of the WW2, two Croatian Home Guard soldiers run home in German uniforms. They managed to save their lives and spent most of their time stealing chickens and eggs for their superior officer. Their uncertain journey ends with the last task: to escort the arrested partisan agent.