Maksim is a retired music professor, a widower, nice, a bit shy, but a good and lonely man. Milena is a retired teacher, a widow, somewhat strict, but with a sense of humor - and also lonely. The two have been coming every week for years to the city cemetery, if it doesn't rain. They don't know each other and never have met, even though they are neighbors, so to speak.
Petar is a retired detective and all he has left is his daughter Iskra. His pensioner's days are interrupted when Iskra disappears. The pursuit to find Iskra begins and the investigation takes Petar back to his past.
Set in the of the nineties of the past century, Bad Destiny explores the consequences of war on its protagonists and the tragedy which those people carry. Beli returns in small Montenegrin town, after years in prison. During the war in former Yugoslavia, he was a member of paramilitary unit Shadows, which participated in cruel executions.