The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.

A story about a 19-year-old girl Manja who, after her parents' divorce, moved with her mother from Zrenjanin to Novi Sad. Manja is in conflict with everyone, from her sister and mother to the new town where she has acquired a single friend, Slonče. He has a band and is hopelessly in love with Manja which she doesn't notice. She did not enroll in college, so she is looking for a job, after being fired from a beauty salon. After finding a new job in the delivery service, Manja also meets Daniel, who is 15 years her senior.

The two slow-witted detectives are having a task to discover the mass disappearance of their fellow citizens in a city run by a 9-year old girl-mayor.