A dramatic story of a mother and daughter set in the late 1980s. The film tells the story of Lilian, a young mother whose life has not been easy. She has an intellectual disability and, to make matters worse, suffered a traumatic assault during her adolescence. The relatively idyllic life she shares with Mrs. Holasová, who cares for both Lilian and her young daughter Malvína, is shattered by the death of the eldest member of this three-generation trio of women. Lilian and Malvína’s lives are thus turned upside down literally from one moment to the next.
Jiří Strach
Director
Elizaveta Maximová
Lilian Kalvodová
Sophia Šporclová
Malvína Kalvodová starší
Valentýna Bečková
Malvína Kalvodová mladší
Veronika Freimanová
Šternová
Dana Syslová
Holasová
Pavel Kříž
Gregor
Magdalena Čečo
Iva
Oldřich Navrátil
Klinger
Lenka Krobotová
Vychovatelka
Petr Jeništa
Vychovatel
Zdeňka Žádníková Volencová
Polesná
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