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.
80세의 통역사 알리 웅가는 자신의 부모님을 죽인 나치 전범의 집을 찾아간다. 하지만 그는 이미 세상을 떠났고, 그의 아들 게오르크가 살고 있었다. 아버지가 저지른 만행을 외면하기만 했던 게오르크는 아버지의 흔적을 찾겠다며 웅가에게 통역사로서 동행하자고 제안한다. 정반대의 성격을 가진 두 사람이 함께 여행을 떠나고, 그 길에서 만난 전쟁을 겪었던 당사자와 그들의 자식들에 의해 참혹했던 당시의 참상이 드러나는데...
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.
