Marilyn Jordan is in an unhappy marriage. Her husband is constantly away on business, and in her large villa, she feels like she’s living in a gilded cage. But instead of trying to meet her need for more human contact, her husband calls for the psychiatrist! Then Marilyn makes a momentous acquaintance. At the airport, she meets a teenage alcohol smuggler and her familial clan – immigrant labourers from Yugoslavia who run a decrepit shebeen near Stockholm. In the bar, Marilyn meets not only wild thugs and merry drinkers, but also the virile zookeeper Montenegro, whose animal instincts soon uncover the attractive housewife’s repressed desires. The film is a risqué satire that reduces ethnic stereotypes such as the “hot-blooded Mediterranean type” ad absurdum in a strange clash of cultures.