A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with condition at home and at the theater, suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes to Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a settlement of poor people to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reasons for the actor’s odd behavior and to hear when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that only known what he does not want! The young director, who earlier started work on filming a portrait of the actor, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.

《野花的芬芳》是南斯拉夫著名导演卡拉诺维奇的首部长片，他在两年后拍摄了那部被选入南斯拉夫影史十佳的《佩特拉的花圈》（1980）。但真正让其在国际上一鸣惊人的还是这部《野花的芬芳》，故事与后来美国的《ED TV》和《楚门的世界》很相似，也是讽刺媒体对私人生活的侵入。