Central Bosnia, the winter of 1993. Ilija, formerly a maths teacher, is now a miner in the Croatian forces fighting against the Bosnian ones. His war routine is broken when he hears the news that his brother Goran was killed in action in a village several kilometres behind enemy lines, without his death having any strategic significance for the struggle. Furthermore, there is no official record of the action, and Goran and his comrades received a cash payment in US dollars for their involvement. With the help of his contact in the intelligence department Zoran, Ilija sets off on a mission to uncover who sent his brother and his comrades to death and what for.