Željko is the head of the Union at a rolling stock company. His deputy committed suicide after the large public protest. Željko is torn between the guilt he feels because of his friend’s death and the expectation of his fellow workers to lead a strike that should thwart the government’s plans to send the company to bankruptcy.

This is a paradigmatic story of Eastern Europe. It chronicles the fight of the workers who became losers of the transition. Active in dismantling communism, they failed to adapt to the ways of the new society.