A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.
The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
Numa pequena cidade ainda ocupada pelos alemães enquanto a maré da Segunda Guerra Mundial está se voltando para os Aliados, o aprendiz de despachante de trens Milos não se importa com a guerra. Em vez disso, ele está obcecado por ter sua primeira experiência sexual. Apesar dos favores do chefe maquinista Masa, Milos não tem sorte. Sua busca o leva a uma combatente da Resistência que, de passagem, o recruta para a causa. Quando Milos finalmente encontra o amor, o perigo da guerra se aproxima. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
