The year is 1941 and the German Nazis rule Bohemia with a free hand. Engineer Otakar Racek is an extremely cautious man who tries to avoid problems at all costs. While some of his colleagues are being arrested by the Gestapo, he receives an offer to become the director of a new department. When he refuses to help the wife of an arrested resistance fighter, his wife Vlasta is shaken. However, she loves him, to the point of even resigning herself to the hatred of Otakar's wealthy mother. One day, Vlasta lets her old acquaintance Ondřej Rýdl, who is on the run from the Gestapo, stay at her house for a few days. The wife passes him off to her husband as a distant relative. However, Otakar succumbs to jealousy and, on his mother's advice, hires a private detective to follow Vlasta. However, the detective is also a Gestapo informant and receives a hefty reward for every arrested resistance fighter...
as Engineer Otakar Racek
as Vlasta, Racek's wife
as Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks
as Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks
as resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl
as Racková, Otakar's mother
as Deputy Rudolf Kadera
as Gestapo
as Gestapo
as doorman Dobeš
as supervisor Josef Frouz
as Tonička, Frouz's wife
as eng. Kubišta
as worker Zdenka, Pour's wife
as Tomeš
as detektiv Brotánek
as owner of the detective agency Alois Barvík
as jr. caretaker
as worker
as chimney-sweep
as resistance fighter Berka
as Nazist
as secretary Müllerová
as Jarda, son of the Frouzs
as woman on the street
as clerk
as german soldier
as german soldier
