After her husband's death in Germany, an attractive young widow leaves his native village in Herzegovina to work abroad. There she starts an affair with an Italian worker that proves to be unsuccessful, yet she gets pregnant. She does an abortion, which is followed by another blow - her godfather Luka steals her hard-earned money.

Young social worker falls in love with a delinquent girl on the run.

Due to idealism, honesty and resoluteness, a driver in a transport company faces numerous problems in his living and working environment.

The film deals with issues of life and work in self-governing socialist enterprises, i.e. the problems caused by the application of the Law on Associated Labor which passed several years before. The protagonists are the metal company workers who are launching a strike due to the reduction of salaries.