Three forty-year-olds friends, hockey player and football players, decide to end their sports careers at the same time. All three find themselves at the beginning of a new life and must choose the path they will take.

Jozef Mak is illegitimate child of poor widow. He constantly withstands oppression of brother, village people and various wounds of fate. Despite of difficulties of the life, he moves on as resilient as the social class he represents.

The peaceful life in a picturesque and somewhat sleepy little town is disrupted by the brutal murder of an eleven-year-old boy. The investigation is taken on by a seemingly mismatched pair of detectives – Captain Mikušová and Adam Hanzel. Gradually, they begin to uncover clues leading to the murderer, as well as hidden secrets of the town...