Tired of country life, Anna leaves military school and her home to live in exciting Prague where she finds herself confused by the behavior of her hip new friends. Irma is despondent over her latest break-up. Speedy is always high, but his brother Filip seems normal enough and Anna takes a shine to him. She does not realize that Filip is gay and involved with his roommate Kytka, who earns a living hustling middle-aged men. The circle of friends remains close knit until the night in which Filip decides to sleep with Anna. Kytka becomes insanely jealous and this causes tragedy before the story reaches its fantastical, upbeat conclusion. This romantic comedy was among the Czech Republic's biggest hits of 1996. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

The story of an ordinary family living in Czechoslovakia from around 1963 until the Velvet Revolution. Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Michal Wiewegh.

Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.