Time of Evil

The year is 1934. Bogdan Dragović is released from prison. He is greeted by a festive lunch at the house of his father-in-law Vukasin Katic. His wife Milena is looking forward to re-establishing family relations, after five years in prison due to her communist orientation. Bogdan's friend from the First World War and agent of the Comintern, Petar Bajevic, comes to the festive lunch and tells Bogdan that he has to go to Paris on a party assignment. Five years later, Milena is in an emotional relationship with Peter, Bogdan returns to Belgrade from political emigration at the dawn of World War II, and Vladimir, Milena's and Bogdan's son, together with his girlfriend Zora and friends from college, including Bora's son Miško goes to communist student protests against the government. Vladimir is under arrest. Milena asks for help from Bora Pub, assistant minister and old friend.

Bogdan is escorted from the train to the Glavnjača prison, where he is interrogated by Svetozar Vujković, an inspector who investigated him several years earlier. Vujković, pressed by an order from the ministry, that is. on Bora's initiative, he must not resort to torturing Bogdan, but he intends to confront him with his son Vladimir, who despised his father because of Bogdan's disagreement with Stalin's principles. Humiliated and broken after Vladimir's rejection by the police, Bogdan went to Valjevo to work in his father's wax workshop. Peter manages to get up after the attack and goes to Nezir's helper. Disappointed with Milena's absence, he decides to return to Belgrade. Bogdan comes to Valjevo, his sister and son-in-law who live in the family house reject him, as does Mirko Čekić, an old friend from the KP. Vladimir is being released from prison, but no one believes him that he was not released without intervention.

Milena refused to communicate with Peter, which is why he got drunk and complained to his friend, Colonel Đurić. In flashbacks, Bogdan remembers his stay in Moscow - the interrogation before the commission of the Comintern, which included his former friend Đura Višnjić. In a series of flashbacks, we learn that he betrayed his friends under pressure. Vladimir leaves Zora. Bogdan decides to write his opinion on the situation in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Ivan comes to Valjevo and refuses to help him publish the manuscript, but he is helped by Bora Pub, which prints it. She secretly meets with the German engineer Franz Roeder at the Spanish professor's. He hides from Bora and Dušanka that he is not learning Spanish, but German. Bogdan, rejected by his sister, son-in-law and party, goes to his uncle Milun's in the village of Slavkovica near Valjevo