Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, law student Pavel, is more attracted to film than to law. With his eight-millimeter camera, he films everything that catches his attention. One day he captures an interesting face on film, a girl with an air of mystery. Pavel visits the girl, whose name is Helena, and meets hers and her elder energetic sister Olga. From Olga, he learns that the girls have spent the years of German occupation in a concentration camp and cannot forget the horrors they have lived through.
В военном гарнизоне Алкалис в день открытия памятника Иоганну Себастьяну Баху разворачиваются загадочные события. Солдат Шульц, прекрасный кларнетист, дезертирует из гарнизона при помощи молодого учителя и И.С.Баха. В тот момент, когда Шульцу угрожает опасность, ружья, направленные на него, превращаются в кларнеты. Все оружие в гарнизоне становится музыкальными инструментами. Церемония открытия памятника великому композитору превращается в музыкальное шоу.
