Sudetenland, May 1945. A group of retreating German soldiers capture a group of young workers, totally deployed in a chemical factory. They wants to use them as hostages during their progress to the American line. Along with them to hide in a nearby mansion, which soon becomes a place of last fight which is in the minds and in the turbulent backdrop of war Czechoslovakia, shortly before the liberation. Psychological probe, as well as intimate drama of a small castle in the middle of the wall is a mosaic fate mapping short stories, attitudes and thoughts of individual characters on both sides of the barricades.