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Television film in three parts, about a serious problem of our current reality – the clients of children’s homes about to reach adulthood and enter normal life for which they are little prepared, often finding that coping with it is painful. It is this complicated stage through which the siblings Marie, Adam and Eva are passing. The dramatic ways in which they do so vary, and yet they have much in common. Twenty-two-year old Marie is completing her training as a social worker, Adam, aged eighteen, is leaving the children’s home, while for the seventeen-year old Eva, this crucial moment still is to come. This is the trio of the protagonists whom we meet at the beginning of the story. They are tied by blood relation, and have the same mother, unable to cope with her motherhood. They have the habits and experience typical of clients of children’s homes, and lack those which are regarded in the outside environment as natural and taken for granted – for instance the routines of a “normal” family. Their bond is extraordinarily strong, but now and then the three of them confront a world which is unfamiliar, rough and unforgiving. They must not only accept it outwardly, but above grasp it inwardly, in order to compare favourably with those who are not thus handicapped.
HD | 3 x approx 90´ | © 2010
director(s): Irena Pavlásková
producer(s): Czech Television
scriptwriter(s): Ivo Pelant
director of photography: Diviš Marek
cast: Jana Pidrmanová, Filip Cíl, Tereza Nvotová, Pavel Řezníček, Simona Stašová, Jana Janěková, Lucie Juřičková, Jan Zadražil, Stanislav Zindulka nad others
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English