Saint from Krejcárek

Lorry driver Martin drops into a shoe repair shop one day and it strikes him that the small, quiet cobbler Lájošek Cína can't possibly be happy there. He decides that the cobbler ought to become his driver's mate, and so he gives in Cína's notice to his boss on his behalf. The smiling and amenable man accepts his new life without protest. Because he had previously been sleeping in the workshop, Martin finds him lodgings in a colony of small houses in Krejcárek with his girlfriend Magda, the mother of four small girls. Magda, who belongs to everyone and no one, gets to like living with the altruistic Lájošek, who immediately declares himself the father of her daughters. Meanwhile Martin is having problems with his lawful wife Kateřina, who wants to get a divorce and go abroad with a lover. After a time Magda tells Lájošek that she is pregnant. He looks forward to his first child and isn't bothered when it turns out to be a mulatto child. He loves little Martínek and is as devoted to him as to the daughters. The juggler Harry returns to the neighbourhoods and Magda decides to move in with him and take the children. Martin is jealous of Harry, but loses in a fight with him. The endlessly patient Lájošek, who has endured the ridicule of the neighbours at his living with a woman easy virtue for the whole time, cannot bear the fact that he is going to lose "his family", and he kills Magda, who has already refused to live with him, with an axe.