The film enjoys cult status and is a dark comedic retrospect of the relationship between dissenters and the State Security Service under the regime of Slobodan Milošević.

In 2001, former professor of literature at Belgrade University, Teodor "Teja" Kraj is now a manager of a big publishing house.

Teja satirically brushes off the workers' demands and continues to plan for a meal with his secretary and lover, Marta, to celebrate his 48th birthday.

A strange man shows up at Teja's office carrying a briefcase and a large suitcase and insisting to speak with him.

After Luka was retired in the aftermath of the 5 October Overthrow, his daughter compiled all his daily reports into four books, all listing Teja as the author.

On several occasions, Marta and the striking workers enter Teja's office and misunderstand his and Luka's interaction as attempted murder or sexual advances.

The film cuts to a scene in 1993 when Luka, posing as a newspaper salesman, was invited to sit with Teja, Maki and Gipsani at a kafana.

When Teja narrowly avoided a fight with the other guests, he started hallucinating and left the table with talk of killing himself.

Luka replies that he acquired an understanding of art and philosophy by following Teja, and was completely clueless about everything other than the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin beforehand.

Luka then opens his suitcase and reveals it was full of ordinary things that Teja had lost during the last ten years, mostly when he was completely drunk.

Teja was being comforted in a kafana by Maki and Gipsani when he first met Marta who was sitting with her psychotic boyfriend.

It is revealed that Jovan is a State Security operative tasked with rousing trade unions under the code name Trotsky, and Luka uses his authority to call off the strike.

The first time was following his father's funeral when Teja and his friends grieved all night in a kafana with a hunters' club Luka had infiltrated.

Teja drank all night and paid the band with his father's golden ring, which Luka returns to him in the present.

On the train ride back home, Luka was in Teja and his friends' compartment with a fake mustache posing as a sympathetic conductor.

Branislav Lečić was intentionally chosen to play the role of Teodor "Teja" Kraj because he actively participated in overthrowing the Milošević regime.