Josef is a writer aged sixty, who thinks that nothing can surprise him any more. One evening, though, his phone rings and he finds himself caught up in a series of events that turn his world upside-down. His best friend – also a writer – tries to commit suicide; his young girlfriend Katka tells him she’s pregnant; and the man with hare ears – his alter ego from one of his stories – appears to him in everyday situations.
Ali Ungar es un anciano, de 80 años, que descubre un libro escrito por un oficial de las SS durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El libro cuenta cómo el soldado acabó con la vida de los padres de Ungar en Eslovaquia. El hombre decide vengarse pero, cuando llega a la casa del soldado, este ha muerto. En su lugar se encuentra Georg, su hijo, un profesor retirado. Georg siempre ha querido huir del legado de su padre pero desea saber más de él. El ex profesor se ofrece a ser el intérprete de Ungar y los dos emprenden un viaje juntos en el que deberán dejar a un lado los prejuicios.
In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy and meets a man that is hired to burn clothes; a woman buried on the ground; a young bride that is marrying the forty and something year-old widow of his brother to support her family as a tradition in their village; her younger brother that is intern in a special school; a decadent TV comedian and his wife; a powerful mobster in the kitchen of a restaurant; one lover of her mother in her former address; and finally her promiscuous mother that advises her to travel through the world.
A film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with a teenage son and English teacher girlfriend who's soon to return home to England.
