An emigrant returning after many years, is killed while trying to clear his name of treason. Investigation produces several skeletons.

A photographer decides to buy a car with the money he'll get for his prizewinning photo, but the postman brings only a diploma instead of money. Being subjected to the ridicule of their neighbors, his family decides to buy an used Buick, in spite of being against it at first. That would turn out to be a huge mistake, since the breakdowns are more often that they can afford.

A story set in a Slovenian town during WW2. The White Guardists bring a wounded partisan to doctor Koren, but he kills their lieutenant, thus helping them both to escape.

Psychological action drama about a group of partisans, ambushed by the enemy.

The only true friend he had was an wolf. Or was it a dog?

Three stories connected by the motifs of water and death told in neorealist style.

In a Nazi concentration camp, Karl, a German political prisoner, and David, a Jewish watchmaker, are confined in a small enclosure from which only one of them will be able to go out alive.