Synopsis
The first part of the Garden Store trilogy is a melodrama set in the 1940s during the German occupation. Three young women and two children are waiting for the return of their imprisoned husbands and fathers. Jiří, a family friend and doctor, selflessly helps this family community thrown together by the war. The Family Friend is a story of a love that could not be fulfilled, it tells of faithfulness, desire, guilt and love, about departures and returns, about family, parents and children. It is a family portrait as seen through the eyes of these women thrown together by fate.
