Second Youth

On her 40th birthday Mira Tobišová does not receive congratulations from her husband, the fifty-year-old bank manager Mr Tobiš who is warding off the spectre of old age by dalliance with his young lover Helga. Mira suspects what is going on, but chooses to suffer in silence because she still loves her husband. Her daughter Fan, a newly wed, however, does not understand father's behaviour at all and is incensed by it. Fan begins to observe the conduct of her own husband, the secondary school teacher Panýr. Fan fears that he, too, will one day foresake her for a younger woman. She therefore decides to flirt with another man, so that her husband is not so cocksure of her love. Events lead to the collapse of relationships. Fan rows with her father. Tobiš's marriage is on the rocks as well. Tobiš comes to think his lover Helga is deceiving him with another man, even maintaining him on his (Tobiš's) money, and he splits up with her. But straight away he begins an affair with a young shop assistant. Then he crashes his car and winds up in hospital. Mira, ever faithful, hurries to him and spends many days at the hospital checking how he is. Only then does the banker realise how much his marriage is really worth. Fan and her husband also explain everything to each other and nothing now stands in the way of their love.