This drama from the times of Slovak National Uprising is situated in a small Slovak village. It is the tragical story of a widow and her four sons who fight alongside the partisans against the German occupants.
After his retirement, Jozef Rebro, a former chief state clerk, finds himself in a new situation. No longer able to overwork his subordinates, he becomes bored and begins to terrorize his family, his wife and daughter Olga and son František. The domestic tyrant can't stand resistance, he wants to...