In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husband's native village at the foot of the Kralický Snezník mountains. Life in the borderlands is far from easy for the lonely woman. The village is almost deserted, food supplies are delayed; the Werwolf (Nazi guerrilla squads) are hiding in the mountains, and shooting is heard from time to time. The elder son Ondra (Michal Dlouhý) is helping out his mother and at the same time absorbing intense new experiences. He meets an old Czech resident Skurek (Lubomír Kostelka), German women working in the forest, soldiers from the engineering units removing the mines, and a young first lieutenant. At night he dreams about his dead father whom he loved very much. This is why he runs away from home when he finds out that the lieutenant is courting his mother.
as maminka Přibylová
as Ondra - syn Přibylové
as Martin - Ondrův mladší bratr
as správce Škurek
as antifašista Alfred Bartl zvaný Freda
as František Přibyl, otec Ondry a Martina
as nadporučík Bedřich
as Trudi
as kapitán, později učitel
as Rudi, Bartlův syn
as jeptiška
as Němka
as Němka
as Němka
as Němka
as Němka
as přistěhovalec Libor
as Liborova žena
as voják
as voják
as voják
as voják
as povozník
as sovětský důstojník
as starý učitel
as venkovan
as venkovan
