Director's memoirs of his childhood in a lively tenement house, in particular one hot summer day in 1949 when all tenants gathered to celebrate the wedding of the landlord's daughter. Small details slowly reveal that the narrator's recollection of the events may not be altogether correct.
In the middle of the pasture stands an old oak tree intertwined with a plane tree. Bětka, who grazes sheep, calls it the apple oak. It is her favorite place. It is as if her mother, whom both she and her father miss so much, is watching her from the tree's crown. And it is here that Bětka meets a...
At least the second victim of a sexual deviant has been discovered in the game reserve of the Hvězda summer palace. The heroine of our story, Olina, a classmate of the murdered 13-year-old girl, has a secret: an unknown man calls her and discusses her adolescent problems with her in a hushed voice.
The five-year relationship between older Michal and Veronika has reached a crossroads. While he is already planning children and a family, she feels that she has not experienced anything yet and wants to have fun. They live side by side without really being together. Under pressure from arguments...
Zdeněk and Jana take care of their little daughter Jitka together. Both sacrifice part of their privacy for their family. Both feel that they are doing everything they can, but at the same time, both are convinced that the other should do even more to make it "fair." What starts as an innocent...
Royal scribe Janek is falsely accused of stealing a nobleman’s jeweled chest and must flee the kingdom to save his life, chased by the sinister Lord Dietrich who demands Princess Amálka’s hand for the missing treasure. Amálka defies her betrothal to join Janek, and together they unravel a...
Marek lives alternately with two women. He tells them both that he works in another city for part of the week. In reality, he stays in the same and moves from apartment to apartment. This works perfectly until one morning he wakes up in the wrong flat.
The fairy queen banished the young fairy from her court forever. A young lieutenant finds her abandoned on a moor. He is enchanted by her beauty, and even the seemingly defenseless girl is not indifferent to him. The lieutenant brings her into the human world. He has no idea that Malvina, who...
