На дворе осень 1950 года, и небольшое подразделение пограничной армии ожидает подкрепления, но прибыл только младший капрал Марыска, учительница латыни и греческого языка в гражданской жизни. Население приграничного поселка малочисленно. Торговец лошадьми Перманец убеждает управляющего конезаводом Джезберу, что командир пограничной охраны собирается написать отчет о его работе для дирекции. Внезапная смерть хозяина паба мешает запланированной танцевальной вечеринке с девушками с фарфорового завода. Симпатичная племянница Джезберы Тереза сбивает рядового Пучмельтра с ног, но его ночной визит в дом девушки прерывается пулеметным огнем на немецкой стороне границы. Новый домовладелец Себек начинает помогать иностранным секретным агентам.
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes to her rescue when she tries to flee from two men wanting to take her away. Věra confesses that she has fled from home because her father, a factory owner, wanted to profitably marry her off. Petr is fascinated by the emancipated woman and shows her round his laboratory, where he plans to create a robot of his own - but one that would be far more advanced. Věra cuts herself on a broken test-tube and a drop of her blood gets in the solution. In the morning, they are taken aback to see Věra's double. This lucky chance has helped Petr create an artificial being, Miss Golem. She has a single motive for her actions: to take care of Věra and allow her to do only what is good for her.
