Sugar House

In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shootout with the Germans After the funeral the widow Jana Svandová and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husbands native village at the foot of the Kralický Snezník mountains Life in the borderlands is far from easy for the lonely woman The village is almost deserted food supplies are delayed the Werwolf Nazi guerrilla squads are hiding in the mountains and shooting is heard from time to time The elder son Ondra Michal Dlouhý is helping out his mother and at the same time absorbing intense new experiences He meets an old Czech resident Skurek Lubomír Kostelka German women working in the forest soldiers from the engineering units removing the mines and a young first lieutenant At night he dreams about his dead father whom he loved very much This is why he runs away from home when he finds out that the lieutenant is courting his mother