An armed robbery with murder was committed in the downtown of Zagreb. That event will have significant consequences on the unusual relationship between a distinguished politician and a young bon vivant, who is connected to a robbed company.

In the twenties of the last century, after funeral of the bank advisor, relatives gathered in a tavern near the Mirogoj cemetery, an opportunity to solve some old and uncleared bills .

Journalist Irena is very busy and in constant motion, so she spends Sunday at work. Irena went to a book exhibition on a sunny Sunday morning, and the day ends with a fashion show. She will interview a prominent Slovenian writer, a film actress and a model.

The main character is a young man who lives with his poor mother in Zagreb. He holds no job and is barely making ends meet in the overwhelming post-war poverty. They have a tenant named John. He is constantly full of money, which, allegedly, comes to him from America. The plot develops when John suggests to the young man that they rob the safe of a person known as Compadre, the same man who sent very youngster to be shot during the war, but he survived by sheer chance...

A slightly deaf girl named Tonka lives with alone with her father and is still unmarried. Aside from her handicap, Tonka’s physical appearance is not grand either, which makes difficult for her to attract men and start a romantic relationship. Then she becomes the subject of town’s malicious gossip.

A group of upper class people celebrate New Year's Eve in a house seemingly possessed by ghosts.

A nostalgic reunion briefly arises when three estranged siblings spend some time together in their childhood home where their father is on his dead-bed. A glimpse of a new fellowship between the three of them.

The play is set in a painter's studio, where we find Nobel Prize author Wolfgang Schwitter, who has died and come back to life, as he will a second time in the course of the play. Declared clinically dead, Wolfgang Schwitter has fled the hospital, with its doctors and gadgets, to Nyffenschwander's studio, where years before he had begun his literary career and where he now wants to die, yet cannot.

Axel convinces Bum that Bum is stranded and suggests that he puts his soul into a box and sells it to a pawnbroker. And really, Bum’s life changes… This is Yugoslav TV adaptation of the Wittinger’s novel.