Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Twenty-year old Tonda (Karel Meister) and seventeen-year old Honza (Jaromír Hanzlík) follow a man and girl leaving a café and then spy on them and with bated breath watch their love-making ...