The film is set in the 1930s. The honest and incorruptible ranger Grozdan is deeply indignant at the illegal felling of trees taking place with the connivance of the corrupt authorities. In his search of justice he passes through a maze of bureaucracy, indifference, lies and political red tape and miraculously escapes being sent to the prison. The film's final scenes are of a grotesque funeral procession burial of doomed, corrupt regime.