Dušan Szabó

Ten short unrelated stories that move chronologically through Slovakia's twentieth-century history as seen from the perspective of life in small towns and villages.

Talented and passionate about learning, Samo often gets involved, sometimes against his will, in the problems of his class of second-graders, which he is in charge of as their class teacher. Together with him, we will witness what young people experience on the threshold between childhood and adulthood. In addition to solving his students' problems, Sam's unconventional teaching methods often get him into trouble with the strict grammar school headmaster Rácz or his more conservative colleagues. However, the real storm in his life is caused by the arrival of an attractive colleague, Klaudia. The two are fatefully attracted to each other, although neither wants to admit it at first. Many obstacles stand in the way of this love coming true...