늙음과 에로티시즘, 멈출 수 없는 시간이라는 세 가지 테마를 다룬 베라 히틸로바의 중기 대표작. 돈 주앙 콤플렉스를 가진 독신남 판은 여인들과의 사랑에 삶의 의미를 두고 잠깐의 성애를 즐기기 위한 대상을 필사적으로 찾는 생활을 평생 반복해 왔다. 그러나 시간이 흐르며 죽음이 가까이 왔음을 느끼고 우울증에 빠져 자신의 삶을 회의한다.
Tomás lives in a very small Czech town and is a nature lover and a birdwatcher. He struggles to keep the forests he loves clean and constantly fights his "archenemy" whose sister and Tomás's classmate is secretly in love with him.
The director of films for kids called Bonzurka together with her loyal assistants Drahuska and Honza are looking for the actors for a new movie "The Knee". Children for this movie should not be afraid and shy and they must have talent for acting. Thus the scouting is quite difficult. The most difficult is to find an actress for a main character who lost her hair after a serious illness and now has to spent the whole holiday in the countryside with a bald head resembling a knee. Although the makeup artist does his best an artificial baldness does not solve anything. From the selected little girls only the self-assertive Rosemary has the guts to let her long hair to be cut and shave off her head.
The 11-year old Jakub is living in a children's home, when he is picked up by his father. The father has been "away" for four years, the boys mother doesn't want the child. Jakub gradually finds out, that his father is hiding a secret from him. But they gradually manage to build a warm relationship and a promising new life in the city.
