The movie's plot is set during the 1920s in post-World War I Serbia. Rebuilding after a gruelling armed conflict in which it lost a sizable part of its young male population, the nation is struggling to recover demographically. The situation is especially visible in certain rural parts where this shortage of men threatens to extinguish life completely.
Set in Zlatibor District, an old man named Živojin Marković (Aleksandar Berček), living in a remote village prays for his grandson Tsane (Uroš Milovanović) to go to the city (Užice), sell his cow and bring back a wife.
The film shows the everyday lives of people in Belgrade who are obsessed with their weaknesses and led by their passions. Seven independent stories on 7 deadly sins are told in a comical tone.
Serbie, hiver 2004. Lazare rentre chez lui après dix années d'absence. Aujourd'hui, c'est un homme différent qui retrouve la liberté, un homme décidé à se libérer du lourd fardeau du passé et prêt à commencer une nouvelle vie dans un pays sorti de la guerre des Balkans.
The movie starts at a family dinner where Saša (Ana Franić), a discontent Belgrade Law School student who is still living with her parents, informs them about her decision to follow her boyfriend Stefan (Branislav Tomašević) to Canada since he had already accepted a job offer to coach water polo there. The parents who thought the young couple were about to announce their intention to get married can hardly hide their shock and disappointment at the unexpected turn of events. Saša's father Miloš (Bogdan Diklić), a conservative judge, is particularly not happy with the fact that she's leaving her studies. Saša also tells them that she's moving in with Stefan right away, even before her visa application is processed. The young couple then leaves the dinner in a bit of a huff.
The film opens just as construction has been completed on a railway connecting a mountainous regions of eastern Bosnia and western Serbia in 1992. Luka, a Serbian engineer, has moved to Bosnia from Belgrade with his mentally unstable wife, Jadranka, and his football-playing son, Miloš, to run a railway station and act as caretaker. Luka is at work preparing the opening of the railway while Miloš attempts to become a professional footballer with the Partizan team. Utterly engrossed in his work and blinded by natural optimism, Luka remains deaf to the increasingly persistent rumblings of war, which has broken out in Croatia and threatens to spread.
Le film a comme cadre le quartier des Blokovi, les « blocs », dans le quartier de Novi Beograd, à Belgrade. Il raconte l'histoire de Mačak (le « chat »), un jeune homme de dix-huit ans qui vit chez ses grands-parents depuis le décès de ses parents et qui joue du ballon dans la rue. Il joue à 1 contre 1 pour se faire de l'argent. Il a comme ami Guru, un paumé de 30 ans, qui reconnaît son talent pour le basket-ball et le pousse à changer de vie. Il est également l'ami de Ćime et de Slavke, de jeunes rappeurs qui vivent en marge de la loi. Le frère de Ćime doit de l'argent à une bande menée par Koma, et a été forcé de travailler pour eux pour rembourser sa dette. Mačak va accepter de jouer à 1 contre 1 avec le meilleur basketteur d'un autre quartier, pour payer la dette de son ami.
Après douze ans passés à l'étranger, Nele, le personnage principal, revient dans sa ville natale, où il retrouve son ancien amour, ses amis et ses parents. Ils passent quatre jours ensemble. Il s'agit de rattraper le temps perdu.
The main character Saša Gordić (Vuk Kostić) is a talented shooter who went footsteps of older brother Igor Gordić (Srđan Todorović), a 1991 Junior European shooting gold medallist. However, Igor has voluntarily gone to war in former Yugoslavia, from which he returned as a drug addict. In order to repay debt of local dealers, Igor is forced to sale their property sales, which their parents left them. So Saša decides to get revenge on everyone who destroyed life of his brother.
Rane's opening sequence announces it as being "dedicated to the generations born after Tito". The film follows the fate of two boys, Pinki and Švaba, growing up in Novi Beograd during the Yugoslav Wars period (1991–96).