Miroslav Balšić, a poor and unemployed lawyer, supports himself by singing in bars and unsuccessfully tries to get a job in the profession. And when it seems that there is no hope of getting a job, he receives a letter from a town in the province in which the director of the bank, by recommendation, invites him to be a teacher for his son who is having problems at school. If he does well, the director will fulfill his promise and hire him in his bank as a lawyer.