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Matylda (Jaroslava Ticha), que vive na zona rural Checa, está a tentar organizar planos de enterro de seu marido a perecer, Jan (Ludvik Kroner). Enquanto Matylda espera ter um funeral para Janna pequena cidade onde eles viviam, há complicações. Anos antes, Jan falou contra o governo comunista e, consequentemente, foi expulso da cidade. Quando Matylda não consegue convencer um político local para permitir a cerimónia, ela usa o funeral de seu marido como uma demonstração pública de dissidência.
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A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka.
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It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.