Dir.: Martin �ulík; Script: Martin �ulík, Marek Le�ák, Ondrej �ulaj; Phot.: Martin �trba; Ed.: Du�an Milko; Mus.: Vladimír Godár; Cast: Dorotka Nvotová, Marián Labuda, Boidara Turzonovová, Július Satinský, Milka Va�aryová, Franti�ek Kovár, Marián Zednikovi; Prod.: Rudolf Biermann; Sales: Celluloid Dreams, 24, rue Lamartine, 75009 Paris (France), tél.: 49 70 03 70, fax: 49 70 03 71 .

Sixteen-year-old Tereza is a happy girl with a simple, even childish view of the world. One day she is forced to leave school and decides to go to Bratislava in search of her mother. Her journey across the Slovakian countryside is punctuated by idyllic sequences and by a series of bizarre encounters. She meets a stationmaster in a station where trains no longer stop. All he does is put old coins on the track and wait for passing trains to turn them into flattened pieces of metal. She comes across a man whose job is to destroy as many things as possible, though she has no idea why he is paid to do so. His car is full of beautiful new dresses. He gives one to her and burns the rest on the spot. Then Tereza meets an old woman half-buried in the ground who tells her it is an ancient method of relieving the body of pain. Later she happens upon strange wedding party. The groom is barely eighteen and the plump bride is well into her middle age. A company chairman hides out in the kitchen of a restaurant while waiting for the dissenting board members to come round to his point of view. Eventually Tereza reaches the city. She is convinced her mother will have all the answers to her questions.