Based on the short story by Janko Jesenský, this costume comedy is set in a small Slovak town in 1910. The place is buzzing with excitement in the expectation of the greatest event of the year – the upcoming annual ball. The arrival of a military regiment turns the whole community upside down. In their efforts to shield their fiancées from the intruders, several local gentlemen try to cancel the dance altogether, but the mayor and the regiment commander agree to hold the ball after all.

This music and dance film is, on the one hand, a sincere celebration of folklore arts and, on the other hand, a typical example of colorful 1950s agit-prop. The story talks about young people coming from different Slovak regions who are turning into enthusiastic members of a professional folk music and dance ensemble. The composition of the movie is set on a framework of picturesque Slovak landscapes and staged choreographies that are reconstructing folklore traditions in the style of the period.

A comedy about the popular national lottery and devoted lottery players. Thanks to their gaming passion, three young friends run into various unpleasant but eventually very comic situations. They are willing to invest not only their meager savings but also their tediously earned incomes into their dream of fast and comfortable money-making adventure, which would allow them to fulfill their grand plans. But their dreams of easy riches are not to last and they end up facing disappointment.

A psychological war drama about an officer of the Slovak Army who, following a personal tragedy, awakens to the cruelty of fascism during fights in the Ukraine. When he refuses to keep contributing to the evils of fascism by his army service, he is promptly punished. He escapes from prison and returns to Slovakia where he joins the movement of anti-fascist resistance. His is an individual and intimate rebellion, since despite of being a soldier himself, he starts to question even the partisan movement.

A comedy from the times of early socialism marked by the efforts of a dynamic industrialization of the Slovak country, Cathy tells the story of a young village girl who defies the wish of her parents and leaves for the city where she seeks work at a newly built factory manufacturing ladies’ pantyhose. After the initial confusion and minor collisions, she grows used to her new environment and the new people and the naive country girl changes into a self-confident young woman with quite new ideals about life.

A comedy about the complicated history of a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, St. Peter used to protect the orphaned sister of the Glogová vicar in a sudden rainstorm. A few years later, Veronika is grown up into a beautiful young woman and she is courted by young promising attorney Juraj Vibra, who arrived in Glogová in search of the mysteriously lost inheritance from his long dead father. However, after falling in love with Veronika, his priorities go through a major transformation.

This film is composed of three satirical stories written by Peter Karvaš. In a very humorous and poignant way, it reveals and challenges the shortcomings of contemporary society. The three parts are connected by the motive of an approval committee that watches the film in order to issue its eventual approval or disapproval of the film´s distributions in cinemas. The committee members, who recognize themselves in the characters on the screen, voice their comments during the intermissions.