Nothing Really Happened

Blanka Halerová is an intelligent and charming woman and is very competent in her work as a publishing house editor. She, however, manages her private life much worse. A long time ago, she unfortunately stumbled and spilled boiling water on her little daughter Šárka. The girl is twenty now. Contrary to her mother, Šárka has long since been able to cope with the scars caused by the accident and is only troubled by her mother’s suffocating care. Šárka works as an assistant film editor and secretly studies at a university. It seems as if Blanka has no emotion and attention left for Šárka’s younger brother Vojta. Blanka is a widow and her boyfriend, an attorney called Otakar Nývlt, fortunately compensates for Vojta's lack of parental support. Blanka is repeatedly paralysed by the shock caused by the unhappy accident. Driving to their cottage in the Giant Mountains in an old car, she finds out that her daughter secretly got a driving licence and can easily substitute for her behind the wheel. The mother irritates her daughter by pressing her to cover the scars on her neck with hair and Šárka thus intentionally combs it up. Otakar divorced a long time ago and has no children. When his very old mother dies, he suggests Blanka to move in with him with the son and leave her flat to Šárka. But the mother in her exaggerated care underestimates the daughter. She does not realize that Šárka is a witty, bright and popular woman; she only perceives her as a poor cripple who no one could really love – and she therefore thwarts all her love affairs. This is why the girl carefully conceals her affair with the mountain climber Franta who Blanka is helping with the preparation of his book. The mother only gradually and by accident learns about her daughter’s successful studies, love relationship as well as her friendly background and also about the fact that the girl can be happy without her. Although she bitterly bemoans it, it seems that she will finally be able to accept Šárka’s maturity and independence.