Split, Christmas morning in 1900. Judge wants to go to the market , but it is disabled by a cunning lawyer and cases that must be urgently addressed. Šjora File is accused of killing her husband, a lawyer calls for acquittal . The following hearing , lining up the " Scenes from a Marriage Dalmatian style " when a judge fails get past šjor File and when he thought he would soon be able to go to the market , it comes Martin , Vlaj where they stole a rooster . In an unusual hearing the judge lost his temper and himself become one of the participants in the case.

The film is set over the course of a New Year's Eve night in the Croatian port city of Split, where it follows three parallel plots. The first plot line features a small-time drug dealer Nike (Marinko Prga) and a young widow Marija (Nives Ivankovic); the second plot line deals with a drug addict called Maja (Marija Skaricic) who decides to have sex with an US Navy sailor called Franky (Coolio) in exchange for some heroin; the third one shows a young couple, Luka and Andela (Vicko Bilandzic and Ivana Roscic) who spend the night desperately looking for a place to celebrate the New Year by having their first sexual experience. The plots are connected through Dino Dvornik's concert, where all of them pass through at some point, and through the omnipresent fireworks that dot the night sky over the course of the film.