In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
Director
Jiří Menzel
Rudolf Hrušínský
Trustee
Václav Neckář
Pavel Hvezdár
Jitka Zelenohorská
Jitka
Vlastimil Brodský
Professor
František Řehák
Drobecek
Leoš Suchařípa
Public Prosecutor
Naďa Urbánková
Lenka
Věra Křesadlová
Convict
Jaroslav Satoranský
Guard Andel
Jiřina Štěpničková
Pavel's Mother