Split shipyard worker Mate lives with his elderly mother and wife Mara, while trying to prove himself as a boxer. At the same time, his younger brother Luka is a drunk, a womanizer who fantasizes about trip to Germany, therefore embarks in a passionate love affair with a young girl Orom, who finds him reminding her of her step father, who was in fact her father. The tense atmosphere seasoned with sea waves can only bring tragedy.