Željko is the head of the Gredelj Wagon Factory trade union. His deputy Mladen committed suicide after large public protests and conflicts within the trade union. Željko is torn between the guilt he feels over Mladen's death and the expectation of the workers to lead a strike that should set back the government's EU-ordered plans to send the company into bankruptcy. The story that this film deals with is a paradigmatic story of Croatia, but also of other Eastern European transition countries. The workers who responded to the front lines of the national counter-revolutions, and who in most cases fought for those nations in the war, became the losers of the transition with the return of peace. Active in dismantling the old, the protagonists of this film failed to build a new society. This is a film about fighters and workers, dreamers and revolutionaries, union leaders and bankruptcy trustees, a film about the unprotected right to work.