Pavlína is a drug - addict who is put away along with her boyfriend for illegal manufacture and use of drugs. Pavlína doesn't believe she can stop taking them. After the amnesty they get together again and immediately start once more. They "go for it hard". Pavlína (later) discovers that she is pregnant. She has no choice but to have the baby. Roman carries on taking drugs. Little Roman is born and he goes from the hospital straight into an institution. Pavlína wants the baby even though she is taking drugs, she promises that she'll stop. They live in a rented flat, they get married and the child comes home. Eventually they even receive their own flat on outskirts of Kladno. They claim they have stopped taking drugs for ever ... these are, as is later proven, just words, in reality they carry on... After a crackdown by police on drug users in Kladno in October of 1991 they catch Roman just as he is making the drug in the flat. Roman is put in prison immediately and the baby goes back to the institution. Pavlína remains in the flat by herself and shoots up with abandon... Roman awaits a court hearing and could get between 2 and 8 years ...
A unique film series begun by director Helena Trestikova in the spring of 1989 using an unusual and singular technique whereby the lives of the film subjects are filmed over a number of years and told within the confines of one film. The material was filmed in a correctional facility for young people in Libkovice over a period of between two and five years. The films capture not only the changes in the lives of the individual protagonists, but also the changes to the whole of society.
| Director, script: | Helena Třeštíková |
| Cinematography: | Martin Kubala |
| Music: | Vlastimil Matoušek |
| Sound: | Vladimír Nahodil |
| Editing: | Jan Petras |
| Dramaturgy: | Jiří Gold |
| Runnig time: | 44 min |
| Year of production: | 1992 |
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