Lawyer Radmilo, the most eligible bachelor, has spent years in love with Ljiljana, refusing all other offers of marriage. He wants to marry Ljiljana, but she plans to marry Momchila.
Set in the 1930s, the series is about the impossible love between a poor young man from the province, an unemployed law graduate and a talented singer, and the rich and sensitive heiress of a bank manager and owner.
The film presents an analysis of a concrete situation: it begins with a representation of the political oppression (forced evictions) the government of the city of Belgrade visited on the Roma people inhabiting the settlement of Belleville.
