[1] The script, written by Petrović, is based on the motifs of the short story collection Fern and Fire by Antonije Isaković.

The protagonist, Miloš, witnesses violent death on three separate occasions - at the beginning, during, and at the end of the Second World War.

The first story takes place at a train station where, after the outbreak of the April War, mobilized members of the royal army gather and declare a photographer without identity papers and with a speech impediment a German spy and execute him.

The director, Aleksandar Petrovic, with the aid of a sparse script and stunning photography by Tomislav Pinter, has pointed up war’s ravages as it affects one partisan’s fights in one small sector of the conflict.

Aleksandar Petrović's films Three and I Even Met Happy Gypsies provided the world an introduction to Yugoslav cinema.