Spring in Belgrade, 1999. A somewhat intact city block among ruins and people inventing survival strategies in the hopes that the insanity of war might come to an end. No work and way too much time, and memories of better days drowned in beer. Zuba (Nikola Kojo), who doesn't believe in anything anymore, lives here and gives people tattoos.

Siske (Nikola Duricko), too, who'd like to be a talented lover and smokes himself into distant fantasies, rummages through the wreckage with his father, an upstanding manual laborer who's constantly going one-on-one with his son. Then there's Kaja (Nebojsa Glogovac) with his mother and the autistic boy Jovan, learning how to play basketball from the former professional player. His wife still loves him, but she's pressing to go to Italy where the child would be better off. All of them are worn down by the heat of the days and the constant fear of more NATO bombing raids by night.

On top of everything else, there's the uncertainty of when the young men will receive their orders to fight. In order to put an end to all the meaningless hanging around, Kaja suddenly has the hilarious idea of reconstructing the basketball court right in the middle of the "authentic ruins of Yugoslavia", the future Eldorado for tourists, as Turca (Ivan Jevtovic) calls it. The young refugee from Sarajevo hasn't lost his twisted sense of humor. Like the others, he's forced to get along without hope for the future - among bombs, beer and basketball.