A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.

The story of an everyday encounter between two pensioners. Jan Svěrák depicts their banal journey through a housing estate as an exciting cosmic adventure, using the means typical of American blockbusters. The gentle satire emphasises the weight of loneliness of old people in the dehumanised environment of a large housing estate.