It was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

The film revolves around Perhan, a Romani teenager with telekinetic powers and his passage from childhood to adulthood which starts in a little village in Yugoslavia and ends in the criminal underworld of Milan.

Perhan lives with his devoted grandmother Khatidža, his lame sister Danira and his dissolute uncle Merdžan.

Khatidža possesses a level of supernatural powers (mainly healing) and Perhan himself has inherited some minor telekinetic abilities.

Merdžan loses his clothes playing cards with Ahmed's brothers, and comes home desperate for money so that he can repay.

On their wedding night, Azra tells him the child is theirs, and was conceived when they made love on the Feast of St George.

Perhan drops the children off at the train station, promising to meet up with them after buying an accordion for his son and a present (sponges) for grandmother.

Perhan assures him he will, "Cross my gypsy heart," but immediately runs out of the station to settle the score with Ahmed, who is about to be married.