Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important thing in life or what he is looking for and what he longs for in life.

Energetic Dr. Alice Váňová becomes the pit doctor at Mír Mine and spearheads a silicosis prevention study requiring miners to drink milk regularly. The miners, led by a tight-knit group, stubbornly refuse public participation. Determined union chair Janeček resorts to psychological tactics and pressure campaigns to force their compliance, turning a health initiative into a tense battle of wills.

Barborka and Tomík vacation at their grandparents at the smithy beneath Dragon Rock, where the double-headed dragon Čmoudík (Smoky) is working hard.

This romance is comprised of three tales representing different aspects of love: temptation, dreams, and adventure. In the first, an introverted clerk takes his savings to paint the town red and winds up with a woman in his bed. Unfortunately, she is only interested in sleeping. Still he is tempted... In the second, a waitress on a train dreams of being a maid pursuing a singer. He rejects her, and she then falls for a medical officer who proposes. She gets frightened and jumps on a train where she meets a flirtatious gypsy. In the final tale, an orphan is invited to a garden party where he is treated like an old friend by the wealthy guests. There he meets a wonderful woman. The next day he goes back to see her. Unfortunately he cannot find the garden, his friends, or the girl.