While expecting an important guest, a family from backward Montenegrin village learns good manners and proper use of silverware.

A young married couple live alone in the Montenegrian mountains and work hard to make ends meet. Their ordinary life is interrupted by various different characters who pass by their home, and serve as a temptation, both carnal and spiritual, which threatens to corrupt the woman's innocent soul. Each new visitor is a threat of sorts and gradually she becomes suspicious towards the world and the unknown.

Montenegro in 1944. A highland farmer tries to change his only son's decision to join the partisans, while minding his own business and not taking any side himself. During the work field they are both captured by Chetniks who previously killed some local shepherds, and their fate is about to be decided by a reckless gang of murderers.

After the death of the father who was addicted to gambling and left his family unsecured, the mother sends her sons abroad to earn money. The sons send the money which she uses to buy fertile land from her neighbors. Their father's sin determines the path of his four sons.

Grotesque about the meaning of ownership of real estate.