The amphitheater of the open-air theatre is filled with young spectators, at the courtyard there prepare the actors, they lit up bonfire, sing a song about "the chap from Kolocava" and the story begins... Nikola (
Miroslav Donutil) and Uhrín (
Daniel Díte), deserters of war, make the promise to the old hag Morana (
Blanka Rudová) that they will marry her daughters. Of reward Uhrín will get rich and Nikola will never be injured by a bullet. The men do not want to keep a promise and prefer killing the hag. In Kolocava Nikola is awaited by his beloved Erzika (
Iva Bittová). But Erzika's father does not give her away in marriage to a poor man. Therefore Nikola becomes a highwayman.
—NFA.cz