Original: Tvrđava
Everyone has to grow up, to separate from their parents, to start their own family. Luka and Daria try to do this while everything around them is falling apart: friendships, families, even the country.
Luka receives a call for military service and decides to propose to his girlfriend, Daria. Her parents are a bit reserved, because, as Croats, they believe that the Serbs in Knin have decided to discriminate against them. Luka is recruited to serve in a special military unit, and in Knin in particular. During training, he proves to be a good soldier and his superiors plan to appoint him as an instructor. The first action he is sent to is an intervention in the police station in Plitvice…
In Knin, in 1992, the "blue helmets" were stationed, maintaining the line of confrontation between Serbian and Croatian military forces. In such an atmosphere, preparations for the wedding of Luka and Darija continue. While the wedding is going on, Croatian military forces bombard facilities on the Serbian side of the defense line...
Luka is wounded in a battle with the Croatian army in Knin. He can no longer fight and is forced to work as a truck driver. However, he would like to find permanent employment. An opportunity arises for him to move to Belgrade for a new job…
The year is 1995. In Belgrade, Luka is engaged in gasoline trade. His employer in Belgrade, Dilpara, is expecting a son, Petar, who spent several years in prison in Italy. Dilpara entrusts Luka to take care of Peter, so that he does not indulge in criminal activities...
The year is 1995. Luka is torn between life in Belgrade, the increasing number of temptations that appear before him, and great concern for the family he has left behind in Knin. Luka's wife, Darija, is expecting a baby soon, and his father is disappointed with the situation in their city and feels that they are getting weaker and more and more abandoned to ruin every day...
In addition to the many obligations and problems that Luka has in order to survive in Belgrade, his life becomes even more complicated on a private level, with Sandra, but also with Peter, who cannot control himself...
Luka returns to Knin and tries to smooth things over with Darija. But in Belgrade, he won't forget his disappearance so easily... Momčilo gets checked by a doctor, and then goes to a monastery with Luka... Meanwhile, in Belgrade, Petar is not calming down and gets into new trouble...
Luka spends some time in the monastery, where he learns some things from the abbot that he didn't know before. Disagreements continue in Daria's house because of her and Luka's marriage...
Daria has given birth. The stores do not have enough goods necessary for adequate care of the baby. The radio is filled with gloomy news that the Croatian army is tightening its grip on Knin.
The column of Serb refugees from Knin on the Petrovac road was bombed by Croatian aviation.
