A poor village in Herzegovina suffers from constant flooding and different armies that periodically plunder the countryside. One woman is convinced that the solution to the problems lies in making a tunnel that should take the water to the sea.

A story about a train switchman, his cat Velja and friends at work. Once tidy and upright after the death of his wife, he became unfit even at his job, which he did diligently. Soft-hearted, sociable, he began to associate with a glass and a bottle.