Osmdesát dopisů

Eighty Letters is autobiographically based. The source of the film are the memories of the director and the surviving correspondence between his parents. The story takes place in Czechoslovakia in 1987. The father has defected to England and the mother and her son are planning to leave the country to be reunited with him. Husband, wife, child – even at a distance they are still together, but the forced break-up of any family is an abnormal situation. The events of the film, taking place on March 29, 1987, are viewed from the boy’s perspective, the exasperated gaze of one lacking experience, his initiation in the course of this single day.