讲述一个男人（埃米尔·库斯图里卡 饰）生命的三个阶段：第一阶段战时幸运的送奶工；第二阶段婚姻出轨爱上情人（莫妮卡·贝鲁奇 饰），第三阶段出家为僧。

1968年，前南斯拉夫在铁托同志的号召下由斯大林主义走向社会主义自治制度，这一转变，让许多知识分子的思维与生活产生了混乱与崭新变化。本片讲述了这一年里，一个典型的前南斯拉夫家庭——父亲（Danilo Stojkovic）是一位信仰马克思主义的小镇法官，大儿子Petar（Slavko Stimac饰）是一位青春期苦恼的少年，渴求寻找到自己的真爱，母亲温柔可人，女儿聪敏懂事，小儿子调皮机灵——还有一位祖父，平日与许多老干部一起在养老院中打牌玩乐，生活自在、大隐于市。
Petar的寻爱旅程开始于他的社会学女老师，经历了对女图书管理员、面包店老板的未婚妻、自治省法院院长的两位女儿的短暂迷恋后，他的一事无成与胸无大志开始让他父亲感到恼火。伴随着整个社会风俗的开放与文艺的活跃，一队布拉格来的女子管弦乐团为小镇带来了一阵清新的空气，为期几天的巡演成为了小镇上少有的狂欢，Petar的祖父也回到镇上，与Petar分享生活中销声匿迹许久的率性、真情与自由……
Goran Paskaljevic导演的这部电影让人联想到许多同样取材于懵懂青春的阵痛的早期作品，如Miloš Forman导演的《黑彼得》，Jirí Menzel导演的《严密监视的列车》。Paskaljevic的作品中充斥的于社会动荡中寻求不羁个性、于平凡现实中观察人心深情的态度，让他的青春喜剧都饱和着令人安心而充满希望的色彩。 （By 思.s。）

这部电影的前半部分介绍了著名心理学家威廉·赖希（Wilhelm Reich）的研究成果与生平，包括对相关人物的访问与影像资料。赖希致力于将精神分析与共产主义结合，宣称来自生命自身的倭格昂能是拯救人类病症的关键，并发明了看似荒诞的倭格昂能储存器。赖希的所作所为很快被美国政府查禁，不幸病死狱中。1971年的南斯拉夫，一位工人狂躁的反对国家新产生的红色资产阶级，信奉性自由才能达到共产主义的米伦娜（Milena Dravic 饰）在室友和一男人纵情的房间外，向邻居们宣讲性的伟大。与此同时，一位身着破烂服装，头戴钢盔手执枪模的男人在美国街头游荡，他的背景音乐是高昂的战斗旋律。米伦娜与一位苏联的人民艺术家相识，两人的分歧最终导致了怪诞又无奈的结局。

A loving portrait of a pirate radio station, which is run by the rural population with plenty of passion and talent in the face of opposition from the authorities.

People of the Jasak village, near mountain Fruška Gora (Yugoslavia/Serbia), show how they undertook operations against the Axis forces during WWII. They tell about the dramatic events, how they helped hide partizan troops and how younger villagers joined partizan troops in Bosnia.We listen to recolections of the Nazi imprisonments, persecutions and torture. In the last quarter of the movie people talk of the events from 1944. when the village was freed and the Russians went through their village. They remember the joy and great hope for the arrival of freedom and socialism.

SFRJ (Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia) was officially a place where everyone has a job and a house. The story follows hard labored workers who can't find a job, who bathe in public bathrooms and sleep in homeless centers.

Žilnik invites six homeless men to his flat for a few days (surprising his wife). He asks officials and people on the street if someone can help them, this being SFRJ, a state officially without those left on their own. At the end, the six men come to the conclusion that no one can help them.