It is 1388, shortly before Serbia's catastrophic defeat at Kosovo. While the respected Serbian noble Strahinja Banovic is out hunting, a Turkish renegade gang burns his castle, kills all of his servants, and takes the young wife of Banovic Strahinja.  Strahinja begins a long quest to rescue his wife despite everybody else's doubts in her fidelity.  Strahinja gathers a posse of scoundrels and goes after the bandits.  In the meantime, the Turkish bandit Alija tries to seduce Strahinja's wife Andja, but she refuses him.  However, over a period of time she begins to weaken.