Acting
In 1951, the well-known Czech actress Jiřina Štěpničková receives a letter from Austria from director František Čáp, who has recently emigrated. He invites her to the West and promises her roles in theater and film. She decides to seize the opportunity and flee. Together with a small group of people and her young son Jirka, she entrusts herself to a smuggler and embarks on a risky journey across the border. But something goes wrong. They are caught. Everything had been planned in advance. The smuggler himself is a member of the StB. But that's only the beginning.
Eva, a driven pastry-shop owner and single mother with a meddlesome but well-meaning mother, is thrown for a loop when her ex-husband Janá, whom she still gets along with perfectly, announces he’s fallen in love again and plans to marry the talented pianist Linda. Determined not to let her daughter’s father’s wedding proceed, Eva and her indomitable mother set off on a road trip to sabotage it.
Mária, a retired teacher, one fine day decides she no longer wants to feel like a cow, and when not even the mayor helps her against the arrogant source of local evil, she obtains a gun and resolves to do what most of us occasionally think of but immediately banish from our minds. Very soon, however, she discovers that just as murder is morally complex, it is equally complex logistically, despite her former pupil, now on probation, offering her this priceless life advice: “Crime only looks simple, Mrs. Teacher, but then something always goes to shit.”
Petr, a top cardiac surgeon, is a very reserved and introverted man. His 21-year-old daughter Lucie has a congenital heart defect, and Petr decides to operate on her himself during a scheduled surgery. After the operation, they embark on an adventurous trip to a beautiful Nordic island. Here, they have enough time to reconnect with each other. One day, however, Lucie suddenly collapses in the middle of the wilderness.
