Ta třetí

At the funeral of his schoolmate the nearlyfiftyyear old architect Jirí Mánek Václav Voska meets his former close acquaintance physician Jarmila Blanka Bohdanová They both are still single Jarmila has recently returned to Prague after years of work on the frontier Jirí leaves for a business trip As a conservationist he is to grant permission for an adaptation of a Baroque château to office spaces On the road a pretty young hitchhiker named Eva Ida Rapaicová stops him Eva is Slovak and her spontaneous behavior enchants Jirí He thus does not mind making a short detour and takes Eva all the way to the luxurious cottage of her parents A romance develops between the two people so different in age and temperament