Blot in a Fairy Tale

Nobody came to pick up little Vendulka from school. She walks alone and sad, because its her eighth birthday today. At home she finds her older brother, Ondra and congratulations from her parents on a tape recorder. A present is hidden in the piano - a book with beautiful illustrations by Josef Lada, called "For Children". Vendulka sees a big black blot on the first page and finds that everything what you put on the blot disappears. When she steps on the blot herself, she finds herself in the artist Lada's studio. The artist gives her bread and butter and tells her that he is preparing an exhibition. Vendulka can hear that Ondra is calling her and she comes back home through a blot painted on the wall. She is going with her brother by underground to meet her mother, a pianist returning from a tour. The car is packed by passengers and Vendulka disappears into a fairytale. She meets Marjánka, tending a little cow. While Vendulka is coming back, the enlivened cow comes with her to the underground, which causes a panic. The girl reveals the secret about the blot to her brother and he can join her. Ondra first fights in the enlivened picture, but then he makes friends with a boy, Honza. The farmer from the fairy tale wants to get his cow back. But the cow ended up in the meantime in a Lost Property Office. The children put the cow back into the book, but the cow must be picked up from the office by their parents. The children admit what has happened to them. However the parents, as adults, are not able to travel through the blot. The father takes the book to a laboratory, but the tests don't show anything. Ondra takes Honza to the real world to show him the airport. He presents him to his mother as a friend, with whom he is training running. Honza is wondering about everything and, at the airport, he causes an upheaval. Ondra calls to Vendulka to come to help with the book. The little girl has to go to her father to the research institute and Honza escapes to the picture in the end. But he is wearing Ondra's clothes and he follows him, as he wants to get them back. The children from the neighbourhood take the book away from Vendulka and, unfortunately, drop it in fresh concrete. At the exhibition, the little girl finds the same book of Lada's pictures and, thanks to that, Ondra comes back. Then Vendulka gives the book to a nosy boy with a pram.