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

Milena and Petar are returning from Tara to Belgrade. After breaking up with Zora, Vladimir changes the women he finds on the street. He doubts whether to go to Bogdan in Valjevo, but there is always something stopping him. Petar realizes that his connection to carrying out the task in Bulgaria has been broken. He tries to hire Ivan to do that task. Realizing that he is being followed by German agents, he comes to Rachel's cod. Vladimir visits Milena and Vukasin, who gives him money. Ivan is arguing with Vera over her affair with the doctor who is treating her mother. Remembering the affair with the young Frenchwoman Catherine in Paris, he decided to accept Peter's offer. Peter received an order from Moscow to liquidate Bogdan. Milena notices that something is happening to him. He tries to prolong the murder, but he is under pressure. He hires his agent to find someone who would be suitable for Bogdan's liquidation. Miško comes to the meeting.

Thanks to Peter's order, the KP youths are lifting the boycott from Vladimir. Milena and Petar try to save their love affair in the log cabin on Tara, but return to Belgrade completely broken, after Petar keeps silent about her task of liquidating Bogdan. Miško enters into a relationship with Savko. Zora tells Vladimir to lift the boycott, but he refuses to return only at Miško's urging. Prince Pavle invites Vukasin to talk about the political situation, the ultimatum of Germany and the pressures of Britain and France. Police arrest communists, including Miško Savko. He's getting sick. After he finds out that she snitched on her friends in the police, Miško leaves Savka. Milun and Bogdan find out about the pact between Prince Pavle and Germany from the newspapers.

As a professor at the Faculty of Law, Slobodan Jovanović is being asked to declare himself regarding the signing of the pact with Germany. Bogdan's condition after the injury is critical. In a daze, he remembers when he was expelled from the Communist Party during his stay in Paris and when he was saved by the Frenchwoman Monique Dibosk, with whom he got into an affair. Bora is angry with Miško because he thinks that KP is guilty of assassinating Bogdan. General Simovic calls on Slobodan Jovanovic to be a minister in the government after the overthrow of the Governorate. Vukasin and Ivan tell Vladimir about the attack on Bogdan. Demonstrations begin in Belgrade on March 27. Vukasin, Milena, Ivan and Petar are attending the general enthusiasm for the overthrow of Prince Pavle.