Jitka Scoffin

Milos travaille dans une petite gare tchèque pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale. Tourmenté par sa timidité, il n'arrive pas à séduire la jolie contrôleuse qui pourtant s'offre à lui. Devant cet échec et désespéré de pouvoir prouver qu'il est un homme, il tente de se suicider. Une jeune fille va tenter de lui faire surmonter ses craintes.

Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the music theater and the strange disappearance of the mathematics professor.

At the funeral of his schoolmate, the nearly-fifty-year old architect Jirí Mánek (Václav Voska) meets his former close acquaintance - physician Jarmila (Blanka Bohdanová). They both are still single. Jarmila has recently returned to Prague after years of work on the frontier. Jirí leaves for a business trip. As a conservationist, he is to grant permission for an adaptation of a Baroque château to office spaces. On the road, a pretty young hitchhiker named Eva (Ida Rapaicová) stops him. Eva is Slovak and her spontaneous behavior enchants Jirí. He thus does not mind making a short detour and takes Eva all the way to the luxurious cottage of her parents. A romance develops between the two people, so different in age and temperament.