The Sea Starts outside the Village

A village gang of boys, headed by the eight-year old Jakub, has its "headquarters" in a cave in an old quarry. Here, the boys are getting ready to fulfill their dream - going to the seaside. But it will not be simple to realize because their preparations are interrupted by various events as well as parents. The worst disaster is caused by one of them, Bohouš, who is caught stealing food from a pantry at home and, while being questioned, betrays everything about the gang and its hiding place to his father. The father gets their camp destroyed and the boys exclude Bohouš for his betrayal. Jakub pushes through a girl Katka from Bratislava to become a member of the gang. Bohouš wants to reconcile with the boys and he and Honzík therefore try to find a new hideaway. Bohouš also offers the boys some valuable sea gear while in a field where they are picking corn. But Jakub is incorruptible. In the evening, the field catches on fire. The firemen find Jakub's knife there. Jakub takes the blame. But the one who struck the match was actually Bohouš and he confesses. The fathers take the two boys to the police. Subsequent expertise, however, proves a different cause of the fire. The children eventually reconcile and postpone their grandiose trip to the sea to the next holidays.