Two neighboring clans and two different approaches to life. What happens when the strained relationship of two domineering fathers interferes with the love of their own children?

The film chronicles the events of a village on the Czech-Austrian border from the 1930s to 1950s, where genocide occurred due to fallout between German citizens and Czechs who collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war.

Monika, Tonik and Dasha grew up together in the same housing project on the outskirts of a small industrial city. Now the childhood friends are adults, each struggling with feelings of desire and loneliness, longing and failure. Though none would admit it, each craves something the other has and it's these unspoken longings which bind them in difficult, complex, passionate friendships. Vibrant and deeply affecting, SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS is a funny, tender and very human drama of passions and lives half-understood and veering out of control, shadowed by tragedy, shot through with hope.

67岁的Hana是她家庭中的灵魂人物。每周她的儿子都会携妻儿来参加家庭晚餐，这是一个无法改变的家族传统。无私的Hana照顾着小Ivanek，Ivanek却并不在乎祖母的帮助。 她还会帮助另外一个经常像她索取大额钱财的儿子。作为一位热心且谦逊的人，Hana独子生活在自丈夫去世就丝毫未变得老房子里，她其实需要来自儿子的照料，儿子们却不是太自私就是无暇顾及。

A gifted and well-qualified young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year old son. The teacher has no romantic interest in the woman but they quickly form a strong friendship, each recognizing the other's uncertainties, hopes and longing for love.