Robert Klein is looking for his step-brother, Emanuel, whom he has met only once. Robert visits two companies that have dispatched his brother somewhere in Europe – a Japanese firm that hunts eels and a US trust that conducts illegal probing for methane-mining operations. Robert finds out that his step-brother is succe…

65岁的布拉格老文学教师托克伦（德内克·斯维拉克 Zdenek Sverák 饰）看上去有些落后于时代，学生的叛逆让他忍无可忍，在他向学生小施惩罚时也丢掉了自己的工作。赋闲的托克伦也许是为了摆脱沉闷的家庭气氛，找到了快递员的工作，然而很快就遭遇了车祸退出。已婚的女儿最近情感出现挫折，托克 伦一边在超市中回收酒瓶，一边替女儿照料外孙；他…