Czech Film Center

Synopsis

Helena Altmanová is a likable high school French and literature teacher, whose healthy, light-hearted
attitude has gained her popularity among teachers and students alike. Her personal life, however, has big
surprises in store for her. Her extended family provides a wealth of opportunity for surprises. Life in the
same apartment with her ex-husband, the successful writer Karel, problems with her widowed sister
Kristýna, her son Adam’s marital troubles, and grandmother Alžběta’s new-found love all keep Helena so
busy that she doesn’t have time for her own life. And yet one day, just as she has all but given up on her
dreams, something happens. Under tension-filled circumstances, Helena meets František, an emergency
services doctor, and falls head over heels in love! This marks the beginning of a stormy, passion-filled story
about breaking up and making up, in which the two love birds complicate relationships, whether on
purpose or by mistake, with their partners and other family members.