Katya Boirand

Two different, fashionable women are having lunch in a London restaurant. They seem to be doing this on a regular. They start talking about trainees and why women are more adept at doing their "profession" than men. This women versus men dialogue becomes our key dialogue for the short. The two women turn out to be part of a "spy" organization. While the two talk, a dashing male agent comes in the restaurant. He takes a seat by the bar. The two women explain who he is, a smug member of their opposition all-male program. Young trainees start the process of building a bomb that is being put in a birthday cake. Later, the waitress brings the birthday cake to the man with a candle on it. What happens next? Something sinister or is it just a training lesson?

A boxing coach who prepares an underdog for a career-defining boxing championship match, as their world starts to collapse under the pressure.

Jan Masaryk est ambassadeur tchécoslovaque à Londres et est le fils de Tomas Masaryk, fondateur de la Tchécoslovaquie. Jan est un véritable patriote, pleinement engagé dans son travail, mais il n’est absolument pas reconnu par les milieux politiques, ce qui le laisse mener une vie de bohème dans l’ombre de l’héritage de son père. En 1938, il consultait déjà le docteur Stein dans un hôpital psychiatrique du New Jersey. C’était un homme sensible, qui abusait de l’alcool et des drogues, mais surtout, il était stressé et frustré face à son impuissance, ce qui lui a valu, d’après le film, d’être interné dans un hôpital psychiatrique.