Czech Film Center

Synopsis

The year is 2009. Pavel Josek, an eminent scientist and former dissident, is due to receive a state honour
for bravery. During the filming of a television documentary about his life it comes to light that at the
beginning of the 1970s – under pressure from the secret police – he played a part in the discrediting of
a former friend, who was ultimately forced to emigrate. The film recounts events that took place over thirty
years earlier without using a single flashback. The family drama sheds light on the practices employed by
the secret police to discredit its opponents. An emotional story of guilt and atonement, the pitfalls of
memory and the need for forgiveness.