Drama about love, passion, death and punishment
The hero of the story is Josef Dousa, a railway guard who returns from the First World War hoping that he would forget all the horrors of his recent experiences in his lone-standing guard house at the side of his beautiful young wife. One day he saves the life of a young man who is about to jump under a train. However, the man falls in love with Dousa’s wife and arouses her passion. Dousa is hit by a bout of deafness and when his hearing returns he does not admit it to anyone – not even his wife. That is the only way he can find out about his wife’s infidelity…
Premiere
27. 11. 2008, Prague