When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.

Veronika Žilková
as Bozena

Jan Hartl
as Karel

Jaroslava Kretschmerová
as Mrs. Stadler

Pavel Nový
as Frantisek Stadler

Kristina Adamcová
as Alzbetka

Dagmar Stríbrná
as Mrs. Administrator

Zdeněk Kozák
as Mr. Zlabek

Gustav Vondráček
as Mladek

Arnošt Goldflam
as Gynaecologist

Jitka Smutná
as Bulankova