1970年瑞士洛迦诺国际电影节最佳影片金豹奖. A young teenage girl is sent to an orphanage when she becomes too much for her mother to handle. Lilika (Dragana Kalaba) is sent to the institution after her mother (Tamara Miletic) discovers she is stealing fruit from the local market. She is very protective of her younger brother and a mentally challenged friend, and takes a liking to her counselor (Branko Plesa). She dreams of having an ordinary life and escaping the juvenile home she regards as a prison. Lilika fantasizes about her future as she hopes for a way out of the orphanage. Eleven years old girl, daughter of a woman affected by war, feels she is unneeded in life of her foster father and her mother. From cruel environment and twisted family, the judge and the jury will find House of correction as her only way out, which she doesn't regard as new home, but as penal servitude for children.