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. Two sisters, Ognjenka and Mala Boginja from a fictional village that has no males of marrying age, set off for the city in search of good men to bring home.