Today is the best day! Winners don’t make excuses! Every cloud has a silver lining… Social media is full of foolproof guides on how to be infinitely happy and obscenely rich. But what happens when you take this advice seriously and actually start following it? That’s exactly what the satirical comedy Ovce žerou první (Sheep Eat First) is about — it takes aim at the phenomenon of self-improvement and the cult of motivational speakers. And it’s also about Dušan — a man who, in his quest for a “better self,” decides to follow all the mantras of success and become a lion among sheep… Or at least a sheep that eats first.

Having lost their jobs due to a Soviet takeover of Lithuanian Television in 1991, its employees declare a hunger strike in protest. Initial enthusiasm is slowly replaced by frustration about a single question – how long can they hold physical and emotional hunger?

A feature film depicting the critical 24 hours in the life of the famous Slovak figure skater Ondrej Nepela; intense and intimate personal drama of a young man, who, after years of dutiful representation of his totalitarian homeland longs to leave the golden cage of Czechoslovakia and become free. He wants to live and love without fear, that the revelation of his sexual orientation will make him a deviant and destroy everything he dedicated his life to. However, the regime strengthens its pressure on him in the moment of his highest vulnerability, using the dirtiest methods to make Ondrej conform to its cruel ultimatum.

A cast of quirky characters is searching for happiness, each in their own way and with varying results. Friends from a local brewery try to snag the men of their dreams using a message in a bottle, two loners are brought together by a foul-mouthed parrot, an eccentric inventor battles a fateful prophecy, and a married couple hitting their fifties is caught off guard by unexpected sexual fantasies. Rounding out the ensemble are an emigrant returns to his homeland in search of an old flame, a centenarian cyclist traveling around the world, a prison guard who is tracked down by his 'favorite' inmate even after release, and an avid bowler who is an even more avid at-home nudist.