The film could have been a lyrical evocation of the ČSSR's first generation: the youngsters born during the war, who grew up in a state violently at pains to find and define itself, and were now ready to break away from the nation-builder ethics of their elders – but Grečner turned it into an anxiety-riddled existentialist vision of a whole globe in fear.

Anton Ocelka
as Turo

Věra Křesadlová
as Ria

Elena Scherhauferová
as Marcela

František Velecký
as Andrej

Lýdia Blechová
as Ľuba

Michal Dočolomanský
as Štefan

Otília Chorvátová
as

Pavol Mikulík
as Chairman

Záviš Bochníček
as

Ivan Stanek
as