The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two coworkers become at odds over Otík's inability to perform even the simplest tasks. Pávek demands that Otík be transferred to assist another driver, who happens to be a choleric and suspicious man named Turek (Turk in Czech). Rather than work with Turek, Otík decides to accept an offer of employment in Prague, but finds he does not fit in to the city life. After discovering that the transfer of Otík to Prague was a trick by a crooked politician to get a deal on Otík's large inherited house, Pávek agrees to give Otík a second chance and retrieves him from the city to resume their work together.
János Bán
Marián Labuda
Rudolf Hrušínský
Petr Čepek
Libuše Šafránková
Jan Hartl
Miloslav Štibich
Rudolf Hrušínský
Oldřich Vlach
Rudolf Hrušínský
Milena Dvorská
Stanislav Aubrecht
Klára Pollertová
Milada Ježková
Magdalena Šebestová
Zdeněk Svěrák
Jiří Lír
Ladislav Županič
Jitka Asterová
Josef Somr
Július Satinský
Blanka Lormanová
Eugen Jegorov
Jiří Schmitzer
Vlastimila Vlková
Jana Vaňková
Petr Brukner
Míla Myslíková
Jana Kušiaková
Jan Hraběta
Milan Šteindler
Vladimír Hrabánek
Zuzana Burianová
Vida Neuwirthová
Jan Kašpar
František Vláčil
Vlasta Jelínková
Dana Hajná
Alena Fišerová
Marie Poláková
Libuše Štědrá
Jaroslav Tomsa
Josef Vondráček
Petr Studenovský
Kateřina Nová
Miroslav Moravec
Jan Schánilec