Lion the Friend

The Vondráček family is in a hurry every morning. Both the mum and the dad Honza have to go to work but first they must take their son Kuba to the kindergarten. Kuba is a perceptive boy who often escapes into his imaginary world. A large part of it involves a lion, even though Kuba has never seen a real one. His friends in kindergarten are ahead of him – their parents have already taken them to the ZOO and they thus already know lions. After work, mum often goes with Kuba to a café to meet her girlfriends for a while. One of them, Jitka, announces her divorce. The young women also watch Káťa from a distance, knowing that she cannot get pregnant. Káťa loves her husband Igor and he loves her. But even so, they quarrel when Káťa finally conceives – her pregnancy is risky and the woman can barely stand that her husband wants to do sports without her. Kuba cannot resist seeing a lion any longer. One day, he runs away from the kindergarten and makes it to the ZOO. He talks to the lion behind the bars with fascination. It seems to him that the animal is sad. The guard, however, soon throws the boy out. Both the parents and the kindergarten teacher are embittered by his escapade without thinking why the kid actually did it. Káťa and Igor are happy that a healthy baby boy was born. Will they be equally happy when the baby grows up to Kuba’s age? Kuba’s parents never have time for him.