Sloboština is a high-rise residential area on the outskirts of Zagreb. Maša Kolanović's protagonist grows up there in the 1980s, and like many girls all over the world, she and her friends spend hours of the day in the glamorous, imaginary world of their Barbie dolls.

At the beginning of the 1990s, political reality, the war and the collapse of Yugoslavia, intrudes on the carefree childhood. As an air raid siren goes off, the residents seek safety in the basement of the high-rise. Barbie's world is now created between jars and rat traps, and a battered Ken figure from the flea market is promoted to a nationalist leader.