The film contains three Jan Werich's fairy tales, each directed by one artist. The first story sets out to the Sumava mountains in Southern Bohemia to find out whether Ogres ever lived there. The middle tale The Hat and the Little Jay Feather concerns a king who sends his three sons to bring back a hat he left at a tavern when he was young. The third and longest fairy tale Reason and Luck is about the two virtues of the title try to prove their importance by changing the life of a pig herder named Louis. Written by

清晨，男人从睡梦中醒来（Jirí Machácek 饰）。他处在一个机器控制的世界，日常生活起居全部由机器管理，睡眠、排泄、洗漱、饮食，事无巨细，房间内的事都得投币后才能进行。除正常的购买外，他还需支付消费，当然更要面对随时的涨价。机器的催讨与喧哗令男人不堪忍受，他开始诉诸暴力，与机器展开殊死决斗，终于获得了胜利。 不过，一个风骚老女人（Tereza Kucerová 饰）的到来改变了一切……