The story follows the life of Blaž Živković who, faced with unexpected turning points in his personal and professional life, struggles to find his place in the world. After traumatic events from his past, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery, where he encounters various characters—some who offer him support, while others bring new challenges and conflicts. Through emotional highs and lows, the series explores themes of love, loss, and redemption, emphasizing the importance of recognizing one's own weaknesses and the strength to change. The story constantly unfolds, drawing viewers into a web of intriguing relationships and unexpected twists, and every encounter and decision has far-reaching consequences for his life.
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Blaž Živković, head of the Port Authority in Split, is convinced that after both of his daughters left, the time has come for him to focus on himself and find a new love. But his plan quickly falls apart when his elder daughter Maja, married and employed in Belgrade, suddenly returns home, and soon after, younger daughter Daria leaves the dorm and moves back in with her father. While Blaž tries to find a balance between his own desires and his new family circumstances, he's given extra headaches by the curious neighbor Špiro, the saleswoman Ankica who secretly pines for him, the eccentric grandmother Bjanka, the conservative grandfather Vjeran, the good-natured Elvis, and Maja's jilted husband.
Blaž Živković, known as Živac, is at the very end of his patience. As a harbor captain and single father, he finds it difficult to accept the new circumstances - but how can he return the child to his mother if she is included in the witness protection program? As usual, Špiro comes up with a theory, but his solutions often don't work in practice. Maybe Grandma Bjanka, an eternal lover of flowers, knows the answer? Or will the charming cashier Ankica offer a way out? In the meantime, why is USKOK interested in the former singer-songwriter from Split? Will Maja's diplomatic skills be enough to cover up Daria's incident and put her back in the student dormitory?
A new employee appears at the Port Authority – Elvis, a senior manager of the Bokobran and a passionate Torcida Ultras. Blaž's presentation is thwarted by Špiro's dating app, which has "hacked" everything. On the first day of school, Ivona receives a shocker pen from Darija, Blaž's childhood diary, Ankica's tablet, and Špiro's sparkler. Soulmates Ješko and Sfinga meet on a blind date, while Blago arrives from the shore with an offer that can't be refused. NATO ships arrive in the Split port, Filipino goldfish are on the scene, and many other mischiefs in yet another episode of Blaž's torment.
Špiro finds out through Ho who Ankica's real crush is and decides to take certain steps. Daria, trying to reduce the number of people in the overcrowded house, plans to temporarily move in with her grandmother Bjanka, but it is not just Bjanka who decides this, but also her cat Bajdo. Maja is being sought out in Split by a man from one of the eastern neighboring countries, and he is her abandoned and inconsolable husband. Due to all the above events, Blaž finds himself in a constant whirlwind like a ball in a pinball machine, while at the same time searching for the "Holy Grail" - tickets to an exclusive concert by Neno Belan.
Where the children aren't wild is anyone's guess, but in the home of Blaž Živković, nicknamed Živac, the space is certainly cramped. Therefore, Blaž sets out to find Daria private accommodation, and—right in Split. A seemingly lifesaving solution is once again offered by Ankica, whom Blaž, swept away by her enthusiasm, proclaims “our good fairy Ankica.” At the same time, Maja is trying to find a representative participant for a survey on soccer fans, which proves to be a complicated task until Blaž suggests she interviews Elvis. Ultras are also the subject of a new video game that Špiro has taken on to review with Ivona's help, but that endeavor doesn't go off without a hitch either. Moreover, questions are raised about why Daria's landlord Lovro was dishonorably discharged from the army, to whom Špiro's game supplier is winking, how many rounds it takes to get the desired information from the legendary Torcida Ultras Katabuje, and whether Elvis is truly an extremely tolerant person.
The Živković family's already restless life is turned upside down by a visit from Zagreb—Blaž's father, Vjeran, a newly discovered Catholic, comes to kneel part-time on the Peristil and, to save on per diems, announces himself to Blaž for lunch. Ivona, meanwhile, goes to hide at Špiro's, while Maja is at a job interview at Ivona's school, where the first question she's asked is: “Name three Viennese cafés that Siegmund Freud frequented!” Since the teacher intends to hire her “daughter,” who bought her psychology degree in Bijeljina, Maja will need the help of Ivona and the cleaning lady Joja, who, in turn, needs a parking spot in front of the school. After Grandpa Vjeran “arrests” Ankica in the store and brings her to Blaž for lunch, Daria manages to escape from that merry company for her first date with Elvis. However, Elvis's idea of a first date involves voluntary work for the common good at a neglected bocce court in Plokite...
Grandma Bjanka, fleeing from the general extermination of rats in her building, temporarily moves in with the Živković's, forcing Blaž to leave the "madhouse" and seek temporary lodging with Špiro. But Špiro does not stand still: he organizes a "double date" for himself and Blaž with "two wicked fish". Maja, however, is convinced that Blaž's "fish" was male until recently, and so she instills suspicion in Blaž that he tries very hard to resist, also calling into question Špiro's "physics lesson". Maja is equally convinced that Ankica's hidden crush is actually Gabela, which - thanks to her pronounced intuition - results in extreme chaos and (tragi)comic confusion. Daria has to temporarily leave the overcrowded home to prepare for exams, and Elvis offers her his apartment as a solution. The tension caused by studying makes Daria's temperament extremely demanding, even for the extremely tolerant (and in love) Elvis, especially in the cramped space of approximately thirty square meters.
As Halloween approaches, a kind of "horror" unfolds in Blaž's building related to the election of a new tenant representative. The question arises whether Blaž and Špiro can stop their neighbor Zoran, whose intentions towards the office have a very personal benefit. Blaž's problems do not end there: Daria and Ivona prepare to watch Carpenter's original film Halloween, and Elvis, dressed in a Count Dracula costume, joins them. Although "invisible" to the others, Blaž - to his own discomfort - notices him and realizes that Elvis is his daughter's mysterious boyfriend. The question remains whether Blaž will approve of their relationship. At the same time, Grandma Bjanka, with Ankica's help, tries to convince Maja that ghosts exist, while Ankica tries to find out from Grandma's ghost where the family jewelry has disappeared. In addition, additional doubts arise: what did Mate from Zvončac do wrong and what did the religious teacher do at Ivona's school.
Elvis opens the bocce court he set up for his neighborhood with an Advent bocce tournament, but when his team falls apart, Blaž steps in as referee and Špiro and Ankica join his team. Meanwhile, at school, Ivona mocked the demanding history teacher, who presents conspiracy theories in class, so Blaž was called in for a meeting with the homeroom teacher, Marjeta. However, it seems that Marjeta is more concerned with arranging a date with Blaž than with dealing with disciplinary matters. Daria landed a job at the university leading training sessions for recreational athletes, but to obtain her license she must submit a urine test. Since she smoked “a few” puffs the night before, her only hope is Maja's sample. But Maja's moral qualms, followed by physical circumstances, prevent her from taking part in the plan.
Blaž is under pressure from all sides: his father Vjeran with conservative views, has announced his arrival in the spirit of holiday reconciliation, while grandmother Bjanka insists that she be met by Maja and Daria, as well as Ivona, whose existence Vjeran does not yet know about. At the same time, Ivona's class teacher Marijeta is seriously interested in Blaž, and since he is too polite and clumsy to outright refuse her, Daria involves Ankica and Maja in a plan to damage Blaž's reputation in Marijeta's eyes. The arrival of grandmother Bjanka and grandfather Vjeran suits Špiro totally unexpectedly: he must conduct a survey on whether senior citizens can become video game users. The resourceful Ivona manages to get Špiro to fill out the survey, but the ideological clash between Bjanka, who is more inclined to the "hippie-communist" worldview, and the national-conservative Vjeran soon causes a situation that will make Špiro regret ever asking the research question.
Maja witnesses a theft in a shop run by Ankica and Ho and learns from Ivona that the underage perpetrator is the charismatic but problematic Roko, son of the famous influencer Lady Da. In the meantime, Blaž organizes with divers a clean-up operation in the Split waters and brings a large amount of waste covered in algae to the premises of the Port Authority. The operation arouses interest from the media, but also from Lady Da with ecology among her influencer topics. The waste also attracts the attention of grandmother Bjanka, stimulating her artistic and activist inspiration and giving her the idea for a 3D sculpture called "As if it were a mermaid - but it's not". Maja confronts Lady Da, Ivona confronts Roko, and Špiro takes on the not-so-safe task of testing an extremely dynamic virtual reality game. Blinded by the VR spectacle and enthralled by the role of an action hero, he gets into one accident after another and hires Daria to get him out of trouble as a "charming assistant".
As the New Year's Eve celebration approaches, Blaž's daughters are preparing for a skiing trip. Ankica and Ho are stuck in an exhausting inventory, while Blaž's secretary Tereza is experiencing the holiday blues. Gabi, an attractive woman from Osijek, moves into Blaž's building and shows a special interest in single fathers from Zagreb, the "Purgers". This prompts Špiro to take over Blaž's identity and invite Gabi and her colleagues to a New Year's Eve party. Blaž is forced to "find" a new persona, name and personality in front of the guests, and thus becomes a wacky version of Špiro – an alleged seducer. In the meantime, the three sisters are playing a game of truth while skiing, where Daria and Ivona witness a small dose of honesty and a larger dose of alcohol result in a kind of life blues in Maja. At the same time, the "real" Blaž and the exhausted Ankica, almost like characters from a modern version of Cinderella, suddenly face their own "love blues" in the moment before midnight.
The unfortunate Sreten finally appears in Split, determined to clear up the misunderstanding that caused Maja to declare him a serial adulterer. Until Maja returns from skiing, Blaž and Špiro hide the crying Sreten and prepare him for the upcoming confrontation. Daria is also preparing for her own "meeting of the third kind", who is fed up with hiding the identity of her boyfriend from her father, not knowing that Blaž has suspected for a long time that her potential fiancé is his exemplary employee Elvis. Tereza has a similar dilemma, who, after an alcoholic "blackout" at Blaž's New Year's party, is trying to gather her strength to find out whether she offended anyone or even behaved inappropriately in that state. An additional complication in Sreten's shelter in Split is the upcoming Croatia-Serbia football match at Poljud, as well as a sudden power outage that leaves the city in complete darkness and plunges the characters into a new wave of chaos.
Maja is found and brought in to allow Sreten to explain, through a PowerPoint presentation, the reasons why he did not commit adultery with Svetlana and the circumstances under which he brought Snežana to Split in a wooden box. In the meantime, Blaž, after arranging a meeting with Ankica for coffee to talk about their mutual feelings, organizes the city's earliest masquerade ball at the Port Authority. The musical guest of the event is the singer Gabela, while the theme of the masquerade is "Split Legends". At the same time, Blaž and Špiro hire Sreten as an art teacher to help them paint over the colorful Hajduk mural on the facade of the building where they live. During this attempt, the mural is unintentionally destroyed, and a video showing the men from Zagreb and Serbia devastating the mural soon goes viral, especially among members of Torcida Ultras. In such circumstances, masked characters face the challenging task of saving the gathered participants of the masquerade ball.
