Skid

František Král escapes across the border in 1948 in search of adventure. He leaves his native Prague, his parents, brother Václav and his young wife Marie and their little son. The frivolous young man changes into a very hard person in the foreign country, and for money he joins the intelligence service. He burns his face in a serious car accident and plastic surgery entirely changes his appearance. He returns to Prague with a new identity and a cover occupation of a variety clown, so as to acquire microfilms during the tour and revive a spy network. He is hiding his past from his new professional and life partner Luisa, but cannot resist and finally goes looking for the members of his family. Meanwhile, Marie married František's brother Václav and told her son that his father died. The mother cannot forgive František for what he did, and the entire family receives him coldly and with dismissal. František has no luck with his spying task either; he's been discovered and followed. František already knows the game is lost, and ends his life in the wreck of a stolen car.