Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.

This movie takes place at the beginning of the First World War, somewhere in the Bosnian province; it's a great story that tells about the dramatic conquest games over Bosnia and the First World War, reflected in the Bosnian province.