Palve got kicked out of France for smuggling stuff and is now on his way back to Yugoslavia. Once there, he plans to sell the house his father left him and fly out to Africa, where he believes he can make an easy (if dishonest) life by stealing from the diamond mines in Katanga. On the flight with him, back to Yugoslavia's mining country, is a nightclub entertainer who regularly avoids the sexual attentions of men by stuffing a pillow up her dress and pretending to be pregnant. Once at home, Palve means to look up an old flame, a nurse. Instead, he hangs out with his mining buddies, and when one of them is injured, he volunteers his blood for a transfusion, which is managed by no less than the old flame he was hoping to look up. Afterwards he readies himself to leave for Africa, but has a change of heart, instead choosing the honest work of a miner in Yugoslavia.