An ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.

In a small town where everyone knows everybody else, independent researcher Vesna is investigating the death of the director of the local radio station. Although the director evidently committed suicide, Vesna, who has uncovered evidence of a conspiracy, is convinced that he was murdered. When several of the people she has spoken to about the matter find out that the director (Milan) was Vesna's father, they become even more withdrawn about the matter. Will Vesna succeed in unraveling the mystery--despite the many warnings that she should stop trying to uncover the truth?

Like the eponymous card game, the film consists of three parts, three different stories that are interwoven with each other in the individual sequences.