The year is 1914.
The place: A village in Serbia on the bank of the river Sava, the natural border with the mighty Austro-Hungarian empire.

The population of the village is divided into two radically opposed fractions - the able-bodied potential army recruits and the invalid veterans from the previous two Balkan wars. There is a bitter animosity between the two groups. At the start of the First World War, the healthy population is mobilized. The invalids left behind in the village ...