Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her whimsical patients in Czech wine country and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, but one day things change and Vlasta is forced to reach outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she might need some care, too.
Acting
Alena Mihulová's restrained, revelation of a performance.
Direction
Horák's debut captures tender absurdity of caretaking.
Writing
Patient stories that feel lived-in, not performed.
Director
Slávek Horák
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Slávek Horák cast his own mother in a small patient role; she had worked in home care.
The film satirizes Czech post-communist tension between Western medicine and revived folk healing traditions.
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