A Feast of Snowdrops

Recreation cottages are scattered throughout the forest around Kersko village. They are all inhabited in the summer and at weekends, which is proven by their TV screens shining into the darkness. Bicycles wait for the regulars in front of the pub Hájenka. The police captain Vyhnálek sneaks on his neighbours and prevents them from riding home drunk by confiscating their tyre valves. The ensuing walk home reminds Mr Franc of the painting The Blinded Bulgarians Return to Their Homeland. In the morning, Mr Franc rests in an orchard surrounded by ripe apples fallen from the trees. His idyll is frequently interrupted by wasps and his wife's and daughter's tyrannical yelling. A young publican and his wife make love passionately, also quarrelling without a single word being uttered, parting and reconciling again. It can be said that their daughter brings herself up somewhat by herself. The tractor-driver Janeček disturbs a wild boar while harvesting maize. Janeček's helper runs to get the hunting rifle. Franc finally takes his wife, daughter and little grandson for a trip on his tiny tractor. But an adventurous hunt makes him leave them in the tractor on the road and join the gathering gamekeepers. The shot boar runs away from the company, finding shelter in the local school. The children jump up on their desks. Janeček eventually brings the animal down and faints. The gamekeepers, who carry the brave shooter and then also the trophy out, are residents of two villages and begin to fight for the boar. The two camps' dispute is interrupted by a young but resolute woman teacher who recommends a joint feast in Hájenka. Its publican agrees to prepare half of the boar with a rose-hip sauce and the other half with cabbage and dumplings. But only Mrs Francová knows how the feast is going to end. The good-hearted Mr Leli loves to profitably buy defective goods, although most of them are non-serviceable. He acquired his mate, a bearded and irritable hussy, in exchange for the painting A Winter-Clad Landscape. Mr Liman takes his goats to pasture in a luxurious pontiac car and plays clarinet to them. Mr Karel weeds his garden while lying down due to his corpulence. The gamekeepers ask him to smoke the boar salami but are returned only half of it because the edacious Karel lost control over his gluttony again. The planned feast begins in the festooned Hájenka in a grandiose way. It is, however, followed by a fight as always and it eventually ends up with the fight of the drunk gamekeepers. Leli brings his friends his midnight home-made tripe soup on a moped. But he has an accident, nevertheless protecting the soup bowl more anxiously than his head. He is, however, severely injured and dies in spite of the help called for by Liman. The drunken Franc is taken home in a wheelbarrow by his wife and daughter. The funeral assistants load the coffin. Dawn is breaking over the village of Kersko.