Mladen Lero

The film follows the story of Hadzi Trifun, a prominent Serbian merchant, who tries to keep the peace with the Turkish authorities, but also maintains his reputation and influence in Vranje, an important Turkish town near the border with liberated Serbia. While Trifun is preparing his two sons to succeed him as the leaders of the Serbian people, he is suffering not only from powerful Turkish beys, but also from his family. Trifun makes difficult decisions that will later affect his descendants, the heroes of the novel Impure Blood by Serbian writer Bora Stankovic.

Ivan and Vera are a young married couple. Both successful in their work, they live in a luxurious villa with their daughters, Petra and Vanja. Aleksandar is their best friend, an architect, as well as Vera's work colleague, who regularly spends time with Ivan and Vera. Aleksanadar and Ivan are friends from childhood, they often go out to nightclubs where Ivan leads a double life. Everything will change one day when the surprising proposal Alexander makes to Ivan does havoc in their lives.

The story of two inseparable friends born on the same day of the same year. As they grow up, their unique, idyllic world—understood only by them—begins to crumble when one of them finds a boyfriend.

A story that follows three generations of a rich Serbian Christian family in the 19th century in the north of the then Ottoman Empire in the city of Vranje, who are fighting for survival through various moral crises, facing decline. Forbidden love, intrigue, murder, arranged marriages, revenge, friendship and enmity between Serbs, Albanians and Turks and the endangered position of women at that time