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Michals father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the postwar social deformations in which they took part either directly or watched them cowardly and in silence They are trying to repress their feelings of guilt and justify their behavior to the young generation with memories of their heroic war feats Michal however does not want to have anything to do with their problems He subconsciously perceives the unpleasant atmosphere in the family as well as his fathers hypocrisy After one of many quarrels with his father he runs away from home determined to go his own way