Following a string of Komedija Theatre's foreign musical hits (such as Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar and Chicago), Ruža na asfaltu was, at the time of its opening, the first original Croatian musical in more than a decade to be performed at the theatre.

In the suburbs of a big city, while Trenk is lamenting the fact that his girlfriend has left him for another woman, his friend Tvrtko meets Ružica and falls madly in love with her.

Ružica seems to feel the same way; however, she is only in the city for a short while to visit her cousin Krešo and must soon go back to the country.

[1] The musical received mixed reviews: Vjesnik called it "dynamic and alive",[2] while Zarez commended the passion of everyone involved, criticized the lack of quality in the actors' performances, but ultimately declared the musical "hilariously amusing because of being bad".

Ruža na asfaltu was performed once more on June 28, 2008, as a part of Komedija Theatre's free concert series given at Zagreb's Bundek Lake.