A Great Summer

It is the day of A levels but the secondary school student Slávka leaves to go to a hospital instead of school to have an abortion. Her father finds the flat of the man who enchanted Slávka by his occupation as a poet but failed by his indecency, and squares with him manually. Slávka's friend Magda successfully passes her A levels in the meantime. No one knows anything because Slávka reportedly underwent appendix surgery. The family background of the two girls is different. The Čermáks, Slávka's parents, are decent and orderly farmers diligently saving for their daughter's dowry. The family of director Klouda is wealthy but both the mother and the father are in side relationships and are together only during their frequent social events. Slávka then successfully passes her A levels, too, at the next sitting. She resists the wooing of a butcher's apprentice Janek – a kind but somewhat peculiar young man. Both the girls want to continue studying. Čermák asks Klouda for help and some string-pulling for Slávka, but the man is already trying to arrange for Magda to study at a school of agriculture. The two girls need some training before the entrance exam. Magda cannot decide between two lovers. Slávka is sent to visit a children's home in order to gain a golden badge of the Brigade of Socialist Work for her colleagues. She comes to favour the little Roman and begins returning to the home. She can hardly bear it when the boy is adopted. She is admitted to study philosophy in Brno without her parents' awareness. The Kloudas divorce. Magda is pregnant and Slávka talks her out of having an abortion.