Miroslav Nohýnek

Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's female author, a University professor and writer named Olga Machová (Jirina Trebická), approximately ten-years-older than him. In the beginning, they do not understand each other at all. Frantisek is a skeptic experiencing a moral crisis, unsatisfied with both his work and his private life - he lives separated from his wife and has no deeper feelings for his numerous lovers. He even gets drunk from time to time and breaks the public peace. Olga is lonesome, too, but considers her life fulfilled.

Картина является сборником из 5 новелл, поставленных каждым из режиссеров по мотивам сюрреалистических произведений чешского писателя Богумила Грабала: «Смерть пана Балтазара», «Мошенники», «Дом радости», «Автоматический свет», «Романс».

A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.

В пограничной зоне неизвестная машина ночью сбивает молодого человека. Пострадавший скончался. Установлено, что это Ян Цауфалик, студент технического училища. Расследование поручается майору Калашу и его помощнику Варге. Постепенно из обычного уголовного дела стал тянуться шпионский след…

A group of jolly young people work in the Prague Tesla factory, also spending most of their leisure time together. One of them, guitar player Zdenek, begins to shun his friends' company. He has fallen in love with Vera, who does not belong to the group. The happy-go-lucky young man already has several acquaintances and has his own method to get a girl: to take his motorcycle, his guitar and a bottle of wine and take her to a rented houseboat. Vera, however, is different and gets angry at Zdenek. But she is fond of him and thus eventually spends a whole evening with him on the houseboat. At a preventative medical examination, the doctor tells Vera she is pregnant.