Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...
Rudolf Hrušínský
as Antonín Důra
Míla Myslíková
as Katerina Durová
Vlastimil Brodský
as Major Hugo
František Řehák
as Canon Roch
Jana Preissová
as Anna
Jiří Menzel
as Arnoštek
Bohuš Záhorský
as Starik
Vlasta Jelínková
as Sluzebna
Alois Vachek
as Man in pub
Bohumil Koška
as Man in pub
Karel Hovorka
as Man in pub
Vladimír Pátek
as Man in pub
