In postwar Czechoslovakia, Pepe (Boleslav Polivka) and Prengel (Ondrej Pavelka) become friends and then business partners by a series of odd coincidences which have put them in possession of a bicycle filled with gold. They set up shop as bakers in an old mansion which formerly belonged to a wealthy Jew. A mute, traumatized and pregnant red-headed woman (Marketa Hrubesova) turns up on their doorstep. She strongly resembles the daughter of the the man who used to own the mansion. She is so beautiful and helpless that both men are smitten with her. Somehow the rivalry between them is dealt with, and they live together with the woman happily, until the dark shadows of Stalinist control of the country begin to loom.
~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide