Marie Pavlíková

A lyrical tale of the pure, vernal romance between a diffident, somewhat naive girl from a rural backwater and a fairly dissolute, but kind-hearted law student from Prague.

Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.