Due to the untimely death of her husband, Jelena spends the whole year in a tangle of feelings of endless sadness and guilty conscience. This depressing routine is broken one day by a visit from her mother, Andja, who brings a pot of her famous chicken soup.
Young ostentatious intellectual, Stanisa (Stan), leaves his family and girlfriend due to their cognitive immaturity, as he sees it. He finds a new home in an abandoned house in the wilderness where other intellectuals such as him live.
At the end of VHS era, two teenage cinephiles will on the same day not only experience their first falling in love, but also far gloomier circumstances they have never been aware of in turbulent Yugoslavia already on her deathbed.
