The story of The Eighth Commissioner takes place on the fictional, most remote inhabited island of Trećić, which officially belongs to Croatia but lives by its own rules. It functions without an organized government, has two churches and no priest, yet the inhabitants manage perfectly well on their own in their small utopia, living in harmony and communicating in their so-called Trećić dialect.The almost idyllic image is disturbed by the arrival of an ambitious and arrogant young politician who has been sent there as punishment. As the eighth government commissioner, he is supposed to finally organize elections and establish authority on the island—but that turns out to be far more difficult than expected, starting with the challenge of understanding the local dialect, which he can interpret only with the help of an eccentric translator.