All of these people meet in a ski resort bar in the High Tatras: two female clerks spending their life savings on a few days of carefree living, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers, and a former major who became an alcoholic due to political persecution. In the course of one night, they reveal the hopes, desires, illusions, and disappointments of the "ordinary" individuals of that era.