The popular folk singer Jaro Zárubecký, a former waiter, follows the motto "A man is not what he is, but what people think of him", and that is how he is raising his son. He lives only for him. Even though he feels successful, he still tries to equal those "above" him out of a certain feeling of inferiority and wants to bring his son to that level. He learns that Paul is in a group of boys who, for lack of other interests and out of recession, let off gas so that whoever shuts him up will become a "coward". Zárubecký is willing to protect his son even at the cost of losing his job and his life partner...

It is late in the evening and the young girl's parents are still awake. They are waiting for their daughter to return, as she is late. To pass the time, they discuss the book that the mother has just finished reading. It was a detective story about a kidnapping, with a large ransom demanded. Eventually, the discussion escalates into an argument about what they would do in such a situation. The father argued that paying such a sum would be pure madness. At that moment, however, their daughter quietly returns home and secretly listens to the whole debate. She is very upset by her parents' attitude, so she decides to test them. With her boyfriend, she stages a fake kidnapping and calls to demand a ransom...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban. However, they had to cope with conditions more than threatening: the presence of Nazi thugs who intend to execute captured partisans as a warning...

Summer 1968: The crisis is reaching its peak. The director of the Prague taxi service, Mudroch, rejects the drivers' absurd demands for a pay increase. The taxi drivers decide to go on strike and seek support against Murdoch from trade unionists and enemies of the regime. The director is convinced that honest communists like him cannot be defeated. However, hateful vandals damage the brakes in his car...

World War II is slowly coming to an end. On the German side of the border, panic slowly breaks out and the local commander orders the local port to be mined. The Czech boatmen take advantage of the sudden confusion and decide to carry out a crazy plan: steal a German ship full of explosives and sail towards Prague, which according to fascist plans is to become the last German stronghold...

Chronicle of frontier division Czech police (SNB) in the years 1946 - 1949.

Rock concerts used to be suspicious. They were supposed to attract all sorts of strange individuals who meant no good. In this case, it's a pair of escaped convicts who want to hide in the heat of the concert...

A South Bohemian cantorial romance about the search for human happiness.