In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
Gala Videnović
Ester
Nebojša Bakočević
Glen
Dragan Bjelogrlić
Saša
Srđan 'Žika' Todorović
Kića
Goran Radaković
Pop
Milan Štrljić
Rile
Relja Bašić
Glen (stariji)
Marko Todorović
Saša (stariji)
