Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prauge in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power.

After The Assistant, The Southern Mail is the second novel of Ladislav Ballek to be adapted to the movie screen. It is setin a fictitious border town in the south of Slovakia shortly after WWII, when the new state borders were just drawn on the maps. The recollections of a forty-year-old author about.his childhood take us backto the 1940s. We see the un-certain times, the conflicts, and the colourful characters of the multi-cultural region of southern Slovakia through the wondering eyes of a five-year-old boy.

年迈的兽医扬先生试图为自己牢笼般的婚姻找寻一条合适的出路，而他岳父的死亡成为压死骆驼的最后一根稻草。他岳父曾和他一样同婚姻做斗争。他岳母现在成了一名寡妇，但仍然主宰着一切事务。扬先生的妻子奥尔加也坚信是她主宰着他们二人的幸福，因此扬先生越来越怕自己步岳父的后尘。他不断用越发奇怪的方式去释放自己，甚至选择去进行一场荒谬又不自在的冒险，最终他发现即使实现了理想中的自由，但一切并没有那么简单。