The movie of Czech director Filip Renc has already won 3 prizes at Czech Lion movie awards. Now spreading its fame in America.The great drama about love, passion, death and punishment brings 4 awards - for the best movie, photography, director and main female role.

The hero of the story is Josef Dousa, a railway guard who returns from the First World War hoping that he would forget all the horrors of his recent experiences in his lone-standing guard house at the side of his beautiful young wife. One day he saves the life of a young man who is about to jump under a train. However, the man falls in love with Dousa's wife and arouses her passion. Dousa is hit by a bout of deafness and when his hearing returns he does not admit it to anyone - not even his wife. That is the only way he can find out about his wife's infidelity.