In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husband's native village at the foot of the Kralický Snezník mountains. Life in the borderlands is far from easy for the lonely woman. The village is almost deserted, food supplies are delayed; the Werwolf (Nazi guerrilla squads) are hiding in the mountains, and shooting is heard from time to time. The elder son Ondra (Michal Dlouhý) is helping out his mother and at the same time absorbing intense new experiences. He meets an old Czech resident Skurek (Lubomír Kostelka), German women working in the forest, soldiers from the engineering units removing the mines, and a young first lieutenant. At night he dreams about his dead father whom he loved very much. This is why he runs away from home when he finds out that the lieutenant is courting his mother.
Jana Švandová
as maminka Přibylová
Michal Dlouhý
as Ondra - syn Přibylové
Marek Mikuláš
as Martin - Ondrův mladší bratr
Lubomír Kostelka
as správce Škurek
Miroslav Macháček
as antifašista Alfred Bartl zvaný Freda
Jiří Kodet
as František Přibyl, otec Ondry a Martina
Ivan Vyskočil
as nadporučík Bedřich
Bára Štěpánová
as Trudi
František Němec
as kapitán, později učitel
Michal Pešek
as Rudi, Bartlův syn
Magdaléna Holendrová
as jeptiška
Lena Birková
as Němka
