Murder Czech Style

František Pokorný is just about to commit suicide and, in his mind, recollects all the events, which have resulted in this unfortunate decision. – František, a forty-five-year old bachelor, becomes attracted to a beautiful young woman, foreign correspondent Alice Sochorová, during a company holiday. His roommate, Deputy director Karel, encourages him in his wooing and František's wishful thinking eventually turns into reality – Alice marries him. The marriage, however, does not fulfil František's expectations. Alice completely avoids intimate life, leaving for Prague for a whole week every Sunday instead and making František an eternal pretender to love. One day, seized by jealousy and suspicion, František secretly sets off to follow his wife and finds out the devastating truth: Alice had married him only in order to be able to continue in her affair with Deputy Karel. In his mind, the desperate František first tries to murder Karel and then Alice, but eventually turns all such plans down and decides to commit suicide. The gas silently hisses and František waits for death. But, at the last moment, he arrives at yet another solution – to become a man of action and have a vigorous word with the deputy director. As a director of a branch of the enterprise, he then lives affluently with Alice and their little daughter Karlička. He has bought a car, saves to build a family house, and nothing can disturb his satisfaction with life - not even the fact that Karlička does not look like him at all.