U mračnim i pustim uličicama splitskog geta tijekom posljednja dva sata stare godine isprepleću se tri priče izdvojene od neobuzdanog novogodišnjeg slavlja. Tri različita ljubavna para koji se zatiču oko Peristila - sitni diler Nike i udovica Marija s djetetom, mlada narkomanka u krizi Maja i razočarani mornar Franky te zaljubljeni i naivni adolescenti Luka i Anđela - pokušavaju naći izlaz iz krajnosti u koje su gurnuti i koje nepovratno mijenjaju njihove živote.

The film is set over the course of a New Year's Eve night in the Croatian port city of Split, where it follows three parallel plots. The first plot line features a small-time drug dealer Nike (Marinko Prga) and a young widow Marija (Nives Ivankovic); the second plot line deals with a drug addict called Maja (Marija Skaricic) who decides to have sex with an US Navy sailor called Franky (Coolio) in exchange for some heroin; the third one shows a young couple, Luka and Andela (Vicko Bilandzic and Ivana Roscic) who spend the night desperately looking for a place to celebrate the New Year by having their first sexual experience. The plots are connected through Dino Dvornik's concert, where all of them pass through at some point, and through the omnipresent fireworks that dot the night sky over the course of the film.

Dans les rues sombres et désertes de la ville croate, deux heures avant la nouvelle année, trois histoires d'amour s'entremêlent. Trois couples se trouvent sur le square : Nick le petit dealer et la veuve Maria, Maja une jeune junkie en crise et Franky le marin américain dépressif, et un couple d'adolescents naïfs, Luke et Angela. Ils tentent tous, sans succès, d'échapper à leurs situations extrêmes, et voient leurs vies changées irrévocablement.