In the late seventies in Rijeka, the story follows the friendship of an amateur rock band, their development, problems, love and desire for success.
A reporter arrives in Rijeka and is placed in a hotel room numbered 23. There he also meets a mysterious roommate with a shady past, gets roped into a case of a local singer's dissappearence and gets tangled up with the local mafia who begin to blackmail him and his family for money.