The Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150 yrs old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.

A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals.

5 April 1941, one day before the Nazi attack of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers headed for the capital Belgrade.