Ivan Jandl

Traumatisé par son expérience au camp d’Auschwitz, Karel Malik, un petit garçon de neuf ans s'enfuit du foyer où il a été placé. En chemin, il rencontre Ralph Stevenson, un soldat américain. Ce dernier réussit à apprivoiser l'enfant sauvage et décide de le ramener aux USA pour l'adopter. Pendant ce temps sa mère, également rescapée d’un camp, remue ciel et terre dans l'espoir de retrouver son fils.

Karel Doležal, insurance clerk and exemplary father of a family, leaves for a business trip with his secretary Vlasta. After spending the night together, they both return home. However, thanks to a small moment of inattention, they run over the boys. Karel runs away from the scene of the crime. He won't tell anyone what happened. Then when he reads in the newspaper that the boy did not survive the accident, he begins to feel guilty. He confides in his wife about the accident, not the infidelity. Their son Jirka overhears everything. His father has always been his role model, and that's why he doesn't want to accept his guilt.

Workers from the aviation factory near Prague set up a racing club for young people that will take part in the international sailing competition for Czechoslovakia.

A drama about Slovaks who emigrated before WW I. It is focused on the life of Ondrej Muranica. He emigrates to America because of the hard life that is partly caused by Hungarian landowners. His dreams and hopes for a happier life are destroyed by a disaster in the mines where he works. Ondrej is declared missing.Years later he returns to his home country and finds out his wife married his best friend.