1989, on the cusp of the Velvet Revoluition, Marie and her husband Viktor return home in Czechoslovakia after years of exile. After a car accident, Marie wakes up from a coma with no trace of Viktor.

The six-part drama returns to a love story that traumatized several generations of Czechs. What preceded the infamous family tragedy of 1968? What followed it? Where can disrupted relationships in a closed rural community lead?

An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water ...