Summary
In the mid-eighties, screenwriter and director Jaroslav Balík tried to give voice to the problems of an ambitious young woman who decides to get back to work after a few years spent on maternity leave. Surprisingly Eva Hübnerová (Polish actress Magdalena Wollejko) does not have any difficulties finding a job as a teacher or a place for her son Tomáš in kindergarten, and she does not suffer from low self-esteem. The troubles the relief teacher encounters in this 1985 release are solely related to socialist morality at the local high school, which Eva is firmly committed to applying to her husband Arnošt (Josef Abrhám). Thanks to his dental profession, he can secure the family financially, but he has started to succumb to pragmatic, small-town prejudices. Nor is everything as the idealistic heroine imagines at school. One determined woman, however, can make a difference.
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