"Someone becomes your saviour, and puts a gun to your head," "someone makes love for you to savour, playing nervously on the chords." "You allow for grave mistakes, one can sense it from your flanks," "passing from flower to flower" "I'll lead you down a wild river." "LONG LIVE THE FAMILY!" "Embrace the former landscape, hide it under your head." "Passing from flower to flower we sink by our weight." "Leaving?" " I've been unemployed for 3 hours." " You lads are ace at self-pity!" " Taking your name-card with you?" " A memento." "What would you take if you got the chop at work?" "My employee card." "Correct." " We'll keep that box here." " They are personal things." " Family photo, my diploma..." " Why, it's about you." "Before going to the Labour Exchange you'll have to see us." "We could have a chat right now." " Not a word without my lawyer." " Hmm." "Just imagine, I lack sugar and my brother has diabetes." "Your answers are all here, in those documents, in the computer." "We could talk about your salvation." "A kind of business discussion." "What we can offer you if you offer us something." "I am not a dealer." "And what we will do to you if you don't offer us anything." " Is that a threat?" " It's an investigation." "We already have 50 documents, and an audit of this garish affair makes it a criminal case." "Your signature is everywhere." " That is your interpretation." " It sure is." "Wipe your brow." "What offer are you expecting?" "Perhaps you signed the material in good faith, just being obedient as regards your superiors." "Make your conclusions after trawling through all this." "They'll chuck it all at you, you're not clean." "It's decision time." " How much do you earn monthly?" " I used to." "105000." "Before tax." "Plus expenses, plus regular bonuses, life insurance, that's another 200." "Plus one-off bonuses, say 893000 before each Christmas for the last three years when you signed documents with over-estimated results." " To put it gently." " That's you inter..." "Yep." "But we trawl through anything that takes our fancy." "Whereas you are sitting on a box which you won't even take with you." "How much for the signatures?" "Ten, fifteen million in three years?" "We're looking at half-a-billion here." "If you helped them out for 15 million, then you're fucking cheap." "Some shares of his are also bound to come up..." " That's your..." " Don't keep parroting it over again." "Five of your bosses are changing into prison gear, you're going home." "Up to your neck in it like them." " Going home, right?" " Sure." " You want to arrest me?" " We want your testimony." "But not of the kind:" "'That's your interpretation.'" "We are talking to you openly." "I won't talk to you without a lawyer." " Even if you locked me up now." " We can only lock you up, but I can think of two people who would welcome your elimination." " People whom you trust." " That is your interpretation." " That retort will last to the nick." " To the morgue." "You've one day to think it over, then expect anything." "May I go?" "I'll save you a walk to the yard." "The company car has been confiscated." "You'll need a taxi." "I won't use the mobile anymore." "I have one SIM card left but I'll keep that for an extreme crisis." "They indicated that someone might wish to get rid of me." "I know it's pressure, but I'm nervous." "You surprised?" "What's my relationship to it now?" "Legally, I mean." "They can lock me up then." "I'm not a pessimist." "I don't usually see things negatively." "Hello!" "Hi!" " Hi!" " Ciao!" "Mistreating the turtles again?" "Did you know that President Beneš drove through Pyšely on 22 May 1937?" "No." "He let himself be photographed with members of the Apiary Club." "Are you writing as to how the entire world came through here?" "Folk like to read who was here, what they did." "She finds it hard to turn over." "You have to help her..." "I thought today would make you have a drink or two." "Nothing to celebrate." "On the internet they say they've arrested five people already." "Javora too, Jarda Toman." "I can't make it out, I know them as normal folk." "That's awful." "They weren't afraid that it would come out?" "It's just remand for now." "Police boot-boy tactic." "Not sure they'll stay inside." "Things are more complicated." "Nobody wants anything from you?" "I was just a small boss." "What's your plan for today?" "Not sure, some fresh air." " I'll go and take a walk." " Fancy taking the kids with you?" " Do you want to go with dad?" " No." "OK." "I'm coming to visit you from Czech Republic's capital city..." "Hi, Libor." " the centre of Czech nationhood..." " Good afternoon." "Where European thought developed..." " Do you have Gold Tequila?" " Sure." " I'll take the whole bottle." "I'm coming to you as the Czech Republic's representative which was always part of the European..." "Any oranges to go with it?" " Five enough?" " One is enough." "Do you know that Beneš stopped off here for lunch in 1937?" "The President?" "How come you have no memorial plaque here?" "If there ever was one commies would have got rid of it, after the revolution boss let it be as Beneš wasn't such a personality for it to be worth it." "Eleven hundred for the bottle, the orange on the house." "Thanks." "Leave it be." "... before our accession into the European Union." " And now the Czech Prime Minister..." " Beneš was a real personality." "That's not within my competence." " Grieving or celebrating?" " That's to be seen." "See you." "See you, boss." "... problems which the European Union countries are now facing." "Couldn't you show off that farce with some intelligent music?" " Music isn't about intelligence, pet." " Music is about intelligence." "Change!" "Libor..." "Libor!" "Yes?" "Where are you, what's up?" "I'm on a hill." " Which one?" " That's all the same." "Libor, you're drunk!" "Yes." "You'v been gone for four hours, you could have rung at least." " I was simply worried." " I understand, I apologise." " Should I pick you up somewhere?" " No, no." "I'll walk." "I'm coming." "Libor, you took my council keys." "I have to go to work in the morning, don't be stupid, come home." " No fear, I'll be in touch." " Something has?" "I..." "I know I wasn't born here." "But over the last few years that I've lived here I feel I belong here." "Or do I?" "In any case, I wouldn't know where to go." "I have no other home." "I am also not doing the kind of work I wanted to originally." "But I get more money." "You know..." "I'm not unhappy." "Nor am I happy though." "When I'm in the dumps I ask myself." "Are other people locally any better off?" "But I have no answer." "But one thing I know for sure." "We're all in it up to our neck." "Each one of us." "Each and every one." "I know little weight is given when bastards moralise, but I'm not such a bastard really." " I never stole anything." " Mum, dad's on the public radio!" "And anyhow..." "You know the greatest problem of our age?" "That nothing whatsoever is clear." "Like, what is what." "Am I a swine if I help a swine?" "Or if I make out that I don't see he is a swine?" "Truth surely is just a point of view, for one person he maybe a swine, for another an important bloke." " And morally normal." " Bugger me!" "Let us admit that we have a bit of the swine in us." "Not on, is it, for one to be decent to everyone." "And no way to society as a whole." "Things would fall apart." "I just wanted to say that there are people, who have more information, who simply know more than others." "That is a great burden." "Good evening!" "Lva!" "You're disturbing the peace, right?" " Eighteen minutes before eleven." " Correct." "You authorised the gent to use the public radio system?" " Yes." " Well, if you don't mind, next time please give your husband tasks which create less disturbance." "You piss me off, no idea how much." " You fancy making love?" " No." "Nothing doing then." " Will you have breakfast, dad?" " Yep." "And I'll open the windows." "You smell awful." " Get up, you drunkard!" " How dare you talk to me like that?" "You spoke on the radio yesterday." "What did you say?" " What did you say?" " That life isn't that simple." "But nobody gave you permission to say it, right?" "If you want to complain about life you don't have to ask permission." "Remember that." "I've put together a poem." "Iva lies in the bath, knife sticks from her belly, at long last she'll let me watch the telly." "I've been shopping." "You're the talk of the town." ""I'm going for a run, I need some exercise."" "Do you remember everything you said there last night?" "Why don't you say it to me?" "What's happened, Libor?" "I've been good a long time, so, don't be surprised something broke." "Something at work I don't know about?" "I'm longer in work." "I am out of work." "What happens there is beyond me." "Do you know how we look in front of everyone?" " You haven't been outside yet?" " Lf you're talked about you're alive." "Oh, it doesn't affect our lord!" "The old lady has cleaned up the pissed over toilet floor, smiled apologetically at the locals, so our gent can have a little stroll." ""If you're talked about you're alive."" "I'm overjoyed I'm alive and able to draw strength from your insight." "Can we go next door?" "What about this insight?" "Can one draw anything from it?" "I hope so, because of this insight I feel squeezed out like a dishcloth." " Wait..." " No plea for thanks here." "Everything I did for us I also did for me and no regrets." "I means we." "I'd do it again." "But not everything I did for it was a pleasure." "Some of it actually harmed me a fair bit." "Such is life." " You said you'd fulfil yourself." " Yes." "Cash evokes such feelings." "Moreover, when it looked you might end up as a High School teacher." "How did it harm you?" "You never said a thing." "What should I have said?" "It's over and done with." "You can go back to teaching, you can write, take photographs." "Let's get away." "Where?" "When?" "Now, just somewhere." " What about the kids?" " We'll take them too." "They have to go to school." "I don't wish to go for a year." "Ten days, a fortnight will do me." "I need to be with you but somewhere else than this place." "Where do you want to go?" "You used to enjoy it when I dragged you off somewhere." "We went not knowing where we would sleep that night." ""On the road"." "And kids will miss school?" "So what?" "Am I meant to say:" "Pack your things, dad's gone bananas, it'll be fun." "I'll tell them." "At least you won't have to explain to people on Monday what a prat I am." "Where is your company car?" "The cops have commandeered it." " Thanks." " And put your seat-belt on." "I hope we haven't forgotten anything." "It's a bunk." "We're doing a bunk." " Shall we sing?" " Sure." "Start." "An intelligent song for Lukáš." "He is ever so sensitive." "Oh, sweet cherries, my cherries, you've scattered on the road." "Finder will scoop..." "You're singing a chord too high." "Lower it then." "Oh, sweet cherries, my cherries, you've scattered on the road, finder will scoop you up as well, last night I picked up a real swell." "Swell looked a picture like a rose, and this one was the one I chose," "I wouldn't let him graft in torture, but like a rose I'd love and nurture..." "This is Velehrad." "Year zero of our history." " Isn't that hotel closed?" " No, it isn't." "Imagine, one approached it from the same direction." "On the hillsides were wooden houses and yards, loads of animals and people, a stone church." "And fires were lit." " When does the open-air museum open?" " At nine, but tomorrow is Monday." "I think it will be closed, it's only open at weekends." " I see." "Is the kitchen still open?" " Yes, but just special orders." " A la frier?" " Yep." "The rooms might be a bit chilly at night." " A bit or a lot?" " The latter perhaps." "And please don't leave the premises." "I've the only keys and off to bed." "That means we can't leave the hotel without you?" "You can try but I wouldn't recommend it." "A lovely stag, hey, kids?" "It's too hot." "It's too cold." "It's too hot." "It's too cold." " It's too hot." " Tina, the water is fine." "Plug your ears up." "Let me into the warm bit." "Isn't that window leaking?" "The heating is making me go potty." "A fine hotel." "I can't sleep with this racket." "You'll sleep." "I won't." "You'll sleep." "I won't." "What am I to do to sleep, then?" "Kids are asleep?" "Do something then." "Enjoyable?" "For two days I can't find my mobile." "Dad said he put them in the car when we were leaving." "I left them at home on the table." "Great, nobody will ring you not having work to go to but I..." "Lukáš, don't be impudent!" " But I have to call work." " You can use the phone box." "In total, we've secured four computers, laptops..." "Can you come, please." "Nothing in the children's room." " Have you been in the bedroom?" " Not yet." "Hey, we both have two degrees, we speak two languages and both live in small flats in high-rise buildings." "What did we do wrong in life?" "Have you ever thought about it?" "Sorry, flower, got delayed at work." "What about Klára?" "The written history test." "Great stuff!" "Dad will bring a bonus home." "Should I buy some seafood to go with the pasta, a good French cheese or two, fresh asparagus, agreed?" "Ta, ta, I'll be home soon." "It would go awry anyway." " Idiot, could have seen eye-to-eye." " Above all, he is a shit." "Make hostages of his own poor kids." " It's all closed." " Here we can climb in." " Are you coming?" " It's closed." " They lived like this in the earth?" " Warmer underground in winter, see?" "They hadn't sorted out heating properly yet." "Notice that the houses don't have any chimneys." "When they had a fire inside the smoke went directly through the roof." "How many soldiers were here?" "Everyone was a soldier when needed." "A man used a plough and a sword." " Where did you read that?" " Not sure, but I believe it." " What?" " Don't know, I just sense it." " I'm scared." " What of?" " Of a thunderstorm." "It still has teeth." "They had bad teeth as they had sand in their flour." "Sand in flour?" "They milled the flour on a kind of stone mill-grinder." "Sand rolled off the stone and got inside their flour, and the sand ground their teeth." "Dad!" "Policemen have caught us!" " Good morning!" " Good morning!" " How did you get in there?" " How do you think..." "Quite so." "The gate is closed, isn't it?" " Logically not through the gate." " Logically?" "A fine example to your children." "We just wanted to take a closer look." "As a student I was here on an archaeological dig." "You climb into someone's window if there's something interesting there?" "Don't exaggerate." "Try look at it as a father, if you can." " Lukáš, was it fascinating?" " Sure was." "If the museum employs a caretaker I'll make a donation." "We came all the way from Prague and found everything shut." "What do you think the fence is there for?" "In order to use the gate, but that is closed." "If you have a bit of sense explain to your kids that we are right." " You've come by car, right?" " Yes." "At least take care we don't stop you for speeding." "Here it is!" "Look, the river-bed has remained the same." "I can't remember shape of a river." " How did you get down the river?" " Normally." "In those days there was much less water, no floods either." " Couldn't have been adventurous." " Yes, it was." " Really?" " The Slavs lived by the river?" " Yep." " Using bridges or swimming across?" "They had bridges and the river served as a thoroughfare." "Here in the sand 10 metre long canoes were found." "Dad!" "I'll get sunburnt!" " Look, what kind of grass we found." " Wow, that's needle-grass." "That's a real rarity." "It grows on steppes of central Asia." " How does it blossom?" " This white floss is a flower." "How did it get here from Asia?" "They say, on tracks of Russian tanks." " Tanks?" "Russian ones?" " When they liberated us." "Or invaded us." "They came more than once." "Stop picking it, it's rare." "Mum!" "Dad!" "Don't go near him!" " Nobody is to touch him!" " Looks he got run over by a car." "More likely he got a beating from somebody." " We'll leave him." " Should we not kill him?" "Christ Almighty, what gave you that idea, Lukáš?" "If we leave him like this he'll die anyway and will suffer." "If we gave him a proper whack on the head he wouldn't suffer so." "We'll leave him, and that's that." "I think we should check out the games on his computer." "I don't have a good feeling about the dog being there." "What if he has rabies?" "Did you see him?" "All he thinks about is not being stressed out." " That repeller stinks." " Repellent." "Block up your nose." "Lukáš, don't use the torch, mosquitos will find you." "I've got the repellent." " That repeller really stinks." " Repellent." "I'll close it when I am cold." "It's me, Libor." "Have they been in our house?" "They're in." "I'm with my kids, my wife." "I just can't disappear to Bulgaria, my daughter is ill." "I can't insist on them going with me." "All right." "Tomorrow at two in Strážnice, 'At the Sun' wine-bar." "Do you want to get rid of me?" "Sure, I trust you." "Good night, mum." "I have a feeling I keep hearing that dog." "Still there, you think?" "Yep." "Sometimes I've an indescribable fear of being kept in the dark by you." "That you are eluding me somehow." "Frightened of me?" "Mum!" "Ever stopped believing me?" "I can hear him." "They are just normal live little animals in the woods." "The forest is alive at night, not everyone sleeps like you." "Hedgehogs, hares for example." "Weasels, badgers, foxes, roe-deer, wild boar, bears, deer," "cuckoos, jays, partridges and bats." "Oh Tina..." "I don't know what was up." "You know that you answer everything with a question?" "Difficult times lie ahead." "Do you have another woman?" "Christ, what made you think of that?" "If you haven't got another woman we'll cope with everything." "Bloody hell..." "I'm all ears." "Yeah." "Today at twelve?" "In Strážnice?" "The lawyer said he'd be there?" "Pokorný rang from where?" "Don't even have his number?" "Unattainable, switched off." "Good morning, thanks." "Is it morning already?" "It will be in three hours, missie." "Where exactly is Strážnice?" "Don't know, probably near Brno." "Anything you want bringing from south Moravia?" "Bring some honey, buy it directly from a bee-keeper." "The one in our shop is disgusting." "Sure." " A kiss." " I'm in a hurry, love." "Tina, get dressed!" "Lukáš, don't rummage in that fire." " Libor?" " Yes?" "Why didn't you tuck it away?" " I did cover it." " I can see that." " Now I have no clean socks." " It'll dry." "That it will, but filth off the canvas got right into it." "We'll go into town and buy you some new stuff." "What do you think about when essential things float past you?" "The essential thing is that we found a place, where we can all be together." "So, don't mix that up with socks as then I feel like a cretin!" "What's up with him?" "Off with the mornings Radiojournal." "Summing up all the stories and what is of interest to us." "At random." "The still explosive Near East, and linked to it the mind-blowing prices of petrol." "We await whether President Klaus, on his visit to Moscow, expresses his views on global warming, and follow the investigation in the Hypo Contact embezzlement case, where the sum of 5 billion crowns is being bandied about." "We will question the Minister of the Interior on this..." "We'll go to Strážnice, buy mum some new socks, have a bite to eat and if we fancy the place we'll find a hotel." "I think they have an aquapark so we can adapt our programme to that." "Heck, dad didn't stop for the police." "Are they coming up behind us?" " You didn't stop for them?" " Rubbish, they flagged that lorry." " You're a wally, Lukáš." " They pointed straight at us." "Why would they stop us?" "We're driving according to the rules." " They pointed straight at us." " I didn't see anything yet again." " I don't mind daddie driving on." " Sure, daddie is an ace." "Tina, back on to the pavement." " I need to make a phone call." " Whereas I need to find the loo." " Libor?" "Lva?" " Lenka?" "Ciao!" "Where have you sprung from?" "Ciao!" " How come you're here?" " We're on a little holiday." " I see." "These are your kids?" " Yep." " No mistaking." " Good morning." "Good morning." "Incredible." "How long that we haven't seen each other?" " A very long time." " What are you doing here?" "I am a Director here." "Hodonín Town Gallery, permanent exhibition by Jožka Úprka." "Don't tell me you haven't heard of him, Prague ignoramuses." " You are still in Prague, right?" " Near Prague, in the country." "Prague countryside is for us still Prague." "I have to let Jura know, he'll shit his pants in delight." "What's he doing?" "Did he stay in schooling?" "Yep." "He's the Assistant Head at the local High School." "Kind of a directing family." "What are your plans now?" "I need to buy some things for myself and make a call." " Can I use your phone?" " Sure, I'll lend you the phone." "I'll just call Jura first." "I need to take a pee." "Use the gallery round the corner, the coffee-house is next door." "You have to come to our house." "Jura would never forgive me." "Jura?" "Are you home?" "Staying put?" "Don't move from there, I have a surprise for you." "You'll be goggle-eyed." "Not telling." "Wait, I have to put the shopping somewhere." "I was in the bio-shop and I didn't want a plastic bag, it's not ecological." "Same numbers three times." "OK." " You also bet?" " Sometimes." "But I've never won, otherwise wouldn't be standing here." " Here's the change." " Thank you." " Best of luck, I hope you win." " Thanks." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "Excuse me, sir." "May I help you?" "No." "And we've got you!" " Finished with the wee-wees?" " Hmm, sure, where are you going?" " To find you, we have no keys." " Let's go to the car." " All right." "Is something up?" "You should know that!" "You are weird." "If you wish I can leave for a moment, or you can come round in the evening." " We're coming." " Great!" "At least I'll get a ride in that super-mobile." "Gorgeous." "It seems you've remained aesthetes." " Well, kids, have you a dog at home?" " No." " We have a dog." " Any other animals at home?" " We have turtles." "Straight and then right." "I'd rather back out and avoid going all around the square." " Praguers!" "How many turtles?" " Two." "Libor, matey, you look better than at school." "That's because you don't teach." " Glad to see you, Jura." " Hi." "It will be twelve years since we saw each other." "You've got lovely kids." "What are your names?" "I am uncle Jura and don't be formal with me, OK?" " Hello, Tina." " Jura." "Lukáš." "Soon our young'un will be home and we'll be complete." "I'll take a photo, lva get nearer to the lads." " Loves to take photos." " Right." "Don't stare at the camera." "Heck, doesn't matter." " And again." " I need a drink, right now." "Once more." "That's it." "Thanks." "You can hang the wet things on the clothes-horse here." "If you need to wash anything, no problem." "Our car isn't as lovely as yours but it's new too." " Uncle, what happened to your nose?" " Oh..." " Come on, show-off." " Just didn't pay attention." "Diagnosis of their family - bizarre accidents." " What did you do?" " Just climbed a ladder..." "And impaled himself on a hook." "In the cellar." "With his nose." "Simply bizarre." "Come on." "Come on." "Like at college in Ostrava." "You got the sack?" "That wasn't being sacked, it all just collapsed and ended." "It ended up in the main news." "But you're all right, aren't you?" "What do you mean?" "Whether they'll lock me up too?" "No." " Anywhere to go?" "Money saved up?" " No worries." "To the crisis then." "Education is in constant crisis, so, the world has caught us up." "And you don't pour us one." "Kids, sit down here." "Iva, a chair for you." "She is like her mother." "Always comes through the door when one opens a bottle." "Her ability to home in is truly incredible." " I'll put the needle-grass in a vase." " That's terribly rare." "So... beautiful." " Satisfied, mother?" " Just the juice." "Police were looking for me at work." " They weren't looking for you." " They even came to the school." " And what else?" " You need more?" "Did you find out anything else?" "That they were there, looking for me," "for us..." "Is that unimportant?" "They've been annoying me for a month, so, I've got used to it." "That's why I wanted out of the house and leave those arseholes behind." "Non-stop new statements." "I wanted to give it a rest for a while and consider what is most important, that is us." "G'day." "Hi." "What happened at training?" " I went flying through the goal." " How, through the goal?" " There was a net in it, right?" " Sure there was." "If we have another child I hope it takes after me." " Mum." " Yep." "Tina, if you didn't eat meat here you'd die of hunger." " It's just a transition period." " Wheel has come a full circle, hey?" "We also didn't eat meat, eggs, nor milk as they were unhealthy." "And the communists proclaimed that potatoes were a great substitute for oranges." "In fact, outmatched them as they contained also starch." "Potatoes are as healthy as oranges?" " In certain circumstances, yes." " For example, under communism." "Inquisitive like me." "And good-looking." " Should have left the Teaching Uni." " Oh, heck!" "I should have gone and studied some form of art." " You are working in the art field." " In a regional gallery." "Suddenly you discover there is no alternative to what you're doing." "Or you won't." "You'd be worse off." "One can't start over and over again." "It's frustrating." " Life has come to a stop for Lenka." " And not for you?" "I have come to terms with it." "We have a house, after all." "I should have studied acting." "Two artists have told me I'm the 'femme fatale' type." " Here we go!" " I could have played all those mysterious women, as they pass by like this..." "Or shop assistants, policewomen, or with this nose, a fated Jewess." " Or a concentration camp warder." " I would have made a fine warder." " In a film, mind you." " Here we go!" "I should have gone into acting." "A potato contains 16 mg." "Of vitamin C and six other vitamins." "It's the healthiest vegetable protein." "Contains potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, manganese, iodine, fluorine and sulphur." "That's incredible." "One potato..." "Míša will become an analyst." "Kids, let's go outside." "All of us!" "You must see this." " Míša, put your kimono on!" " Sure." "You've never seen this before." "Quick, so we can catch it!" "It's by Krištof Kintera." "Exact to the minute, like the bells of Rome." " I love, above all, the goat." " We let her go everywhere until she thought of herself as a member of the family." "If you don't let her inside the house she gets cross." " I'd prefer sheep." " Sheep are dumb." "Like chickens." "Geese are much better, they're a bit like goats." "Somewhere in the intelligence mean are guinea-pigs and rabbits." "Hang on, that's not all." "Míša, go on!" "Neighbours of Libor Pokorný describe him as a friendly person, who actively participated in the social life of the village." "The raid by the police came as a shock to the inhabitants of Pyšely." "He never hurt anyone, never did anything wrong." "He built a nice house like many others in the neighbourhood." "It seems Pokorný is responsible for the bankruptcy of his bank having participated in tunnelling 5 billion crowns worth of assets belonging to Hypo Contact and passing the money on to dummy firms whose owners are untraceable." "Mr. Pokorný is on the run so he's being treated as a fugitive." " World's coming apart, off for a cig." " Jesus." "You'll stink again!" "A fine example for Míša, hey?" "We keep saying he shouldn't, that it's unhealthy, and then he sees you doing it." "Mother, stop bugging." "Míša, that's fine, enough." "Nobody allowed here apart from me and the goat." "I'm glad really you've showed up." "It may not seem like it but I feel pretty much alone here." "I belong in the north." "My roots are there." "I don't have anyone to talk to here." "Apart from the usual crap about sport, the harvest and weather." "It's a place full of hicks." "But I've got a house here now." "It happened like this." "Climbing off the ladder and where there are all the hooks for baskets, one of them got shoved right up my nose." "Fuck me, it really hurt, I thought I'd wee myself." "Now I look like Nicholson in 'Chinatown'." "We'll have one to start with." "I have to cover everything up as Lenka gets her hands everywhere." " Does lva also pry into your stuff?" " I don't think so." " You can't know." " I pry into her things." "Like her computer, her mobile?" "She can't handle some of it, so, I do the servicing and go through it." " I am jealous, matey." " Ever found anything?" " No." "And I have to do all this." "Codes, ciphers, hide the plum brandy in a jerry can like with my mother at fourteen." "Just for peace to reign." "Otherwise, we live..." "Why don't people trust each other when they decide to live together?" "Jura, I'm going to jail." "If we carry on like this we'll be under the table soon." "Because of the bank you worked for?" "Yeah." " Was it at least worth it?" " What do you mean?" " Whether enough cash is hoarded away." " Not enough." "But I'm not a criminal, get it?" "The State will pay it off somehow." "In comparison to public cash that's stolen, it's a drop in the ocean." "5 billion disappeared, something had to come your way." "The economics of it is more complex." "I was at work all the time, the family never saw me." "But the cash disappeared and some geezers lived like pigs in clover." "And it will paid from our taxes." "You've also got a helicopter at home?" "No." "It may seem like loads of money but from an overall perspective, in terms of the State, it's nothing." "Okey dokey, a few people did all right." "Five billion disappeared into pockets of some fucking managers and you're telling me it's nothing." "Sorry, but with my 23000 monthly salary it becomes slightly problematic to look at it from your point of view." "Jura, but I'm not a shit." "I don't have a billion at home." "Iva and the kids think we're on a normal trip." "I'm here because of them, to spend a few more moments with them." "To prepare them somehow." " They're really after you?" " They're here already." "I can't work out right now whether lva..." " As long as no suspicion is raised." " I'll take responsibility for it." "The police are looking for your car." "Big Brother is ever-present, worse than the commies." "Cameras everywhere." "They worm their way into your computer, mobile." "No rustling of papers." "Simply a click and they've got you." "Goat, get lost!" "What are they up to?" "Many-a-time I fancy getting on to some train and get going." "Anywhere." "But then I realise I'd arrive, get off and then what?" "What would I do there?" "So, I'm still here." " I'm happy at home." " And Libor?" "Has he changed?" " He's calmed down, I think." " I don't need to be happy." "Happiness is a hysterical posture, unbalanced." "So, I'm not happy." "I want to be calm." "But I'm not that either." "What are you doing out there?" "Nothing, went to see to the goat and stepped in some oil." "Must be leaking from their car." "We're looking at that." "Fuck it, which cable could be up the spout here?" "All the same." " You afraid of prison?" " Yep." "What of most?" "All of it." "Strange folk, little space, bullying, probably queers." "They won't put you together with druggies and murderers." "They have a section for managers." "Economic crimes and such like." "And bars, matey." "Bars and police mugs." "I don't know for how long." "What will they all say to my kids." "And lva..." "Make a run for it." "Beyond our borders this republic is just a laughing stock." " You'll be fine." " I can't flee." "Tina is an epileptic, such an adventure might kill her." "I'm not going without my family." "Fuck, why did I ever sign it?" "I'm such a cunt." "You're not a cunt." "We'll have another one." "Michal, Tina is asleep." " I'll mess up your lovely car!" " I'd repair it myself." "Have a bit of consideration." "Tina is asleep, mess notwithstanding." "Off to bed!" "Both of you!" "What a cow that goat." " Should have been asleep long ago!" " Why, it's super." "This is how I'd imagine the end of the world coming." "I crawl in here next to the jerry can, have a few, and wait for it to come." "Either a bomb or a natural catastrophe, something will come because everyone steals, nothing is sacred anymore, basic human values are collapsing and icebergs are melting." " Shouldn't we join the girls?" " Sod them." "They've enough chat." "I've just read that Siberia is melting." "And there are the biggest reserves of methane gas in the world." "Melting - billions of cubic metres of methane is escaping into the air hermetically shutting the atmosphere, UV radiation cannot escape out." "We'll be in a sauna!" "We'll kick the bucket in shorts among cactuses!" "Firstly, there'll be a war for water access." "All out war." "With Asians." "But it won't concern me." "I'll be sitting here sipping from the preserve jar awaiting the outcome." "In peace, like Seneca." "I've finished with any kind of affinity to humankind." "You know, how alone I am here?" "How I've dug myself in here?" "I'm all alone too." "You have it more interesting." "You're aiming for somewhere, rising." "Sure." "Shouldn't we join the girls?" "You fancy one of them?" "Or both?" " No, but I'll soon fall on my gob." " Why should you fall?" "In Ostrava we went on a pub crawl for a week and nobody fell." "Blimey, Ostrava..." "I'm curious though that I haven't caught any venereal disease yet." "You've... been unfaithful to lva since you got married?" "Yep, but it was so pitiful I don't count it." "Everything counts." "Why pitiful?" "Fuck it, I'd give anything for a screw!" "I like you, always liked you." "And I was always jealous because you are better." "Don't let yourself be pissed about." "Where-ever I come to I end up being the whipping-boy." "I hope young'un is different." "Jura was snoring here again saying he had slept in the workshop." "Is it still fun with Libor after all those years?" "Still good after such a time." "He really takes care of the family, we are really well off." "I never thought we would be that well off." "I saw myself as a worn out teacher." "Living in a high-rise." "Don't you miss the passion?" "Admit it." "Not really." "The kids, in any case, put it all into a different perspective." "At least for me." "Still, it's all about chemistry in one's head." "Well, sure... that yeah." "He likes mirrors." "I'm afraid to let kids into the bedroom in case they cotton on." "That it's like in a..." "You don't mind looking at yourself?" "After having children?" "If it turns him on." "You don't think how you look doing it?" "Or how he looks?" " I don't think much during sex." " Well, me, I'm an aesthete." "I keep thinking of my drooping tits, what they're doing, going walkies?" "Mine are so small they don't droop much." " Can I try something?" " You may." "Why can't one do everything in life that one yearns for?" "Because one would disintegrate." "You still have me." "I know." "I don't sense you being happy with Libor." "Well, the same goes for you two." "Not planning a change?" " No." " Neither are we." "Anyway, I'm pregnant." "Yeah, I had an inkling." "Does Jura know?" "Not yet." "I'm waiting for the right moment." " That's a pot-belly like a melon." " I've had that for five years." "Tina sleep-walks." "Overtake, take off, overtake, take off..." "Dad, overtake, take off, overtake, take off..." "Overtake, take off, overtake, take off..." "Tina, what are you saying?" " Does she do that often?" " She is rather fragile." "They're a bit quiet in there." "Do you smell that stink?" "I'd leave them to it." "What if they wake and go out?" " He made a fool of himself back home." " I'll lock them in then." " I'll wake him." " Fair enough." " Jura!" " Up we get!" "Libor!" "Off we go!" " What a cow that goat." " Get up and go to bed." " We'll lend them our car, Lenka." " Sure thing, come on." "They'll leave their own as they've bust the oil sump." "Right, tell me tomorrow." "They can't carry on with that, so, I made them an offer..." "Personally." "With no egging." "I'm amazed you get a kick out of hiding the booze in a jerry can." "Like from your mum at fourteen." "Would you remain faithful to me, say, for five years if I had to go somewhere?" " What poppycock is this?" " A year then." "A year." "Would you need to screw someone?" "Where do you want to go now?" "Would you be faithful for five years?" "If you knew I was most definitely faithful to you but have gone away, had to go off somewhere." "Where do you want to go?" "Sure, you'd have it off with some bloke, damn it." "If you need us we're staying put." "We'll call by the end of the week, The blokes will repair it." "If you don't get in touch, well, we have a better car." " Ciao." " Bye." " Bye, Michal." "See you, kids." " Goodbye." " Tina, oopsie daisy!" "Goodbye it seems." "Someone becomes your saviour, and puts a gun to your head," "someone makes love for you to savour, playing nervously on the chords..." "Most blokes are dirty pigs." "Mum, do you know what I'll do with the needle-grass?" "Make dry flowers." "Will we visit Slovakia?" "Across the river there in Holíè lies the oldest stone chapel in central Europe." "And Masaryk was born there too." "I want a quiet hotel where the kids have a pool and for us peace to talk." "We came for some hanky-panky?" "Libor, did you always lie to me?" "Like what?" "What lies?" "The coppers are after you." "We are running away." "You're totally spent behaving like a madman." "I'm afraid of you, afraid for you." "Iva, I never lied to you." "You lied." "And keep doing so." "I haven't lied." "Just didn't tell you everything." "But why should you know everything?" "Because we live together." "What use would my work problems be to you?" "Wouldn't understand anyhow." "But you want to leave the country." "Remember what you told me last night?" "You have to disappear." "Otherwise they'll lock you up or shoot you." "You've become the same bastard like all those mafia bosses." "You exaggerate." "Not as bad as all that." "Do I look like a swine?" "Dad!" "Dive in!" "Come on!" " Mum won't dive?" " Mum doesn't dive." "No Balkans, no Seychelles, just good old Beskydy mountains." "That's 300 kilometres." " No more useless trips." " We've a helicopter, state priority." "Tina, you're a messy brat, look how you've spilled it all." "Sit properly!" "I can't help it." "The table is crooked." "Sure, you can't help it, seems to be a family trait." "Don't dabble in it with your hand spreading it about!" "It happens." "Sure, it happens." "Major Plicka!" "This is the Chief of the Special Task Force, Captain Klos!" "This is the hotel plan." "Wedding on, so we shouldn't interfere inside." " Why, they turned them in!" " It's a wedding, boozing since morn!" "Shouldn't we try it ourselves?" "He won't be armed." " We'll simply go and get them." " He's a sod, might be armed!" " Fuck it, he's got kids with him!" " Bugger the kids!" "He's not stupid, had to count on that!" "Which is our car?" " I'll ask for the bill." " I'll add it to your bill." " Will you have anything more?" " No thanks." "Dad, may I go up to our room with Tina?" " All right." "But no messing." " Come on." "Libor, would you tell me if you wanted to disappear?" "I can't disappear." "I can't leave you just be." "And why would I anyway?" "I am lacking in sugar yet my brother has diabetes." "Want some?" "If it helps..." "Hey, shall we hire some bikes?" "I feel uncomfortable with all the people." "Sure, we need some fresh air." "I'll reserve the bikes and you get the kids ready, OK?" "Dear beloved!" "You've decided to go forth on a joint journey in life." "That decision is a serious one, serious and fundamental." "As Exupéry wrote, one becomes for ever responsible for the being one tied to oneself." "Marriage is a thorny path with many crossroads, steep ascents and sudden falls." "Half of married couples get lost." "I, myself, have lost my way three times." "But there exists a chance to enter the final straight successfully..." "ALIVE OR DEAD?" "The last of the accused Hypo Contact managers has disappeared." "Libor, they're here." "Run to the pool via the fitness room." "Meet there in one minute!" "If it's two minutes we're buggered!" " You're not armed?" " We have you." "We have to get to mum." "Mum's in danger!" " Where is she?" " By the pool." " Will we return here?" " Yep, quickly!" " What's happening?" "Are we going far?" "I have no shoes." "Where did mum call from?" " Police!" " Everyone down!" " Did he get tipped off?" " Rubbish." " They're somewhere about." "Which way is the pool, sauna, fitness room, emergency exit?" "All clear." "Where did you get the car?" "And what are you wearing?" " Where are we off to?" " I don't know." " That can't be possible." " That one's cool!" " We need a jeep." " No go, didn't count on that." " Major, that was an order." " I understand." " Kids, are you OK?" " Yes." " I'm fine." " Have you gone crazy?" " How crazy?" "Do you know whom we fled from?" "Didn't you see them?" "Damn, what did you do?" "My signature is under loans which went elsewhere than they should." "I signed accounts and projects which looked differently than they should." "It looked then that it might work out." "Business is a roulette and this failed." "I didn't choose this world." "I dropped into it by chance, as you know." "Those sods who have remained in top positions can't judge me." "Don't trust them, it's a farce." "And what about me?" "The kids?" "I did everything for you and the kids." "Always the most important thing for me was that you were well." "Whatever anyone else thinks." "They don't live my life, I'll withstand mine." "If you had wanted, if you had thought about some things yourself it could have clicked together in your head." "I wanted to prepare you for it." "Gradually." "But I felt so good being with you I didn't want to mess it up." "Are you Mr. Libor Pokorný?" "Yes." "And you're not armed?" "Right?" "No." "Y'know a warrant is out for you?" "Yes." "Come to me then." "Stop and turn round, lean against the tree." "Good afternoon." "Hands behind your back." "Is that necessary?" "It's the rules." "In the name of the Law I arrest you!" " Anyone else in the vehicle?" " One more child." "Fuck, it's all wet here, there'll be ticks here..." " I've got him for you, gents." " Good work." "Theft of the car was unnecessary, just an added charge." "That will be explained." "Were you in Strážnice, or not?" "The lady is a co-defendant or just a family member?" "Family member." "Sit in the car along with your children." " Don't touch me." " All right." "Don't cry, we'll manage it." "Libor!" "Life only has any sense when being with you, having asked last night!" "Just sleep, sonnie, close your little eyes, two blooms of blue gentian." "One day they'll turn grey like tin, breath will taste of sin, the bitter-sweet turn of age." "At turn of century glows, in your arms dissolves, your first or fifth." "Before anyone knows, wounds will heal, it shows, and you'll end up like sire." "At turn of century glows, in your arms dissolves, your first or fifth." "Before anyone knows the deal, wounds will heal and you'll end up like sire." "Sleep on, sonnie, sleep, close your little eyes, mum will wash the nappies." "Grow out of Cow  Gate, sit by a bar by fate, with glass of a different hue." "No mistake, bad times'a'coming, the army will be humming, gun in your hand instead of chisel." "Booze rather than embrace, teaching you to retreat, in case, and you'll end up like sire." "No mistake, bad times'a'coming, the army will be humming, gun in your hand instead of chisel." "Booze rather than embrace, teaching you to retreat, in case, and you'll end up like sire." "Sleeping, sonnie, ever harder, penury has gobbled up the larder, squalor thrives down the cellar." "In the creche by the hide mother will put you aside, when night sees dawn." "A manual for deceit to play at your feet and finders won't be keepers." "One big compromise of life, leaving solitude that's rife, and you'll end up like sire." "A manual for deceit playing at your feet and finders won't be keepers." "One big compromise of life, leaving solitude that's rife," "and you'll end up like sire."