When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield a nameless man without identity and memory subsequently named Jakov leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey he meets a female first-fighter who runs an orphanage a commander who got back from Foreign legion and runs a defense line from a disco club and goes through many other adventures only to end up in the endless backwaters of the Neretva river where war threats to arrive.