At the beginning of the World War I, Filip, a Serbian school director in the Serbian province, has been asked to immediately go to Belgrade to get war schedule. His wife Lea, Slovene, with no one to leave because the two of them recently arrived in the small town and no one really knows them. Azem, an Albanian, school attendance, gives Filip a promise (Besa) to watch the Lea and that nothing will happen. Lea and Azem, are forced to live together in an abandoned school. Their relationship changes during the time.

MUNDIR is a loan shark in a small Serbian town, a former boxer with diabetes. He is old school, he realizes the times have changed, and that money lending business is not what it used to be.

King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister, Louse Barthou, were assassinated in Marseille on October 9, 1934. BULLETS OVER MARSEILLE follows the trial of the assassin Vlade Georgijev Cernozemski’s co-conspirators. Through the reconstruction and dramatization of the legal proceedings, but also everything that had been skipped over during the trial, a courthouse drama has been constructed that comes closest to the truth of the trial itself and its impact on peace in Europe.