Zavallılar is a film with 3 protagonists: Abuzer (performed by Yılmaz Guney), Arap (performed by Guven Şengil), and Hacı (performed by Yıldırım Onal). The wretches are people crushed, looked down, excluded by the society, they are real miserables. The film begins with the anxiety of the protagonists about their coming out. They beg to stay at least until spring, because they do not have anyone or any place to which they belong to. The film shows retrospectively the facts that caused them to go behind bars. While telling their story, Yılmaz and Güney touch sorespots of the society, and refer to certain deviating situations.