It is the spring of 1948, the joy of peace has not yet faded, and both the East and the West are already afraid of the third world war. Both worlds are separated by the deep forests of Šumava. Twenty-four-year-old cook Josef Hasil serves in the kitchen of the National Security Service in Zvonková. He had already experienced the war in a German labor camp and as a link between partisans. Now he longs above all for fun, adventure, freedom. The last thing he cares about is politics.