一个年轻的大学生因为不想让女友在假期参加政治学习班,而在明信片上开了一个小小的玩笑,这让他的一生付出惨痛的代价:开出党籍、开除学籍、被罚去矿区服苦役,在社会上遭受着"另类“的待遇。15年后,世事沧桑,当这位大学生获释,巧遇曾迫害过他的党小组组长时,他本想以勾引他的妻子来报复,没想到反而帮了这位另结新欢的小组长一个大忙,更荒谬的是,这位小组长因为政治立场的转变成为了一个反斯大林主义的英雄。
In small czech town named Jilemnice live unfortunate, but brave and jovial woman Štěpa Kiliánová, whose only desire was to fill the void in her virgin life. In despair and excessive trust, she married a sardonic, reclusive man, former lieutenant and gambler Pavel Malina, whose only wish was finally found peace and forgetting the past. They lived through unrequited love, dislike...