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A twisted gay romance set in the 19th Century picturesque Bohemia telling a tabooed true story of birth of one of the nation's most influential writers, starring Julius Feldmeier (Tore tanzt). Suspense, laughter, violence, hope, heart, nudity, sex and happy ending. Mostly happy ending.

The Czech poet Ivan Blatny who fled from Communist Czechoslovakia in the late 1940s, believed to have died in the 1950s, rediscovered in an English mental asylum 1980, explains how he came to choose a "One Flew Over The Cockoo's Nest"-like existence, continuing to write surrealist poetry thought to be nonsense until a Czech-speaking English nurse reading the poems contacted scholars, creating a sensation in the world of letters.

Bara is introduced to the new elite of Czech society after the German invasion. A life-changing opportunity she seizes to her benefit.