Chance Meeting

Wandering around wine bars and pubs drinking, thirty-year old worker Oldřich, who is celebrating the birth of his son, meets a seventeen-year old lad called Yellow T-shirt Boy [Žluťásek]. Yellow T-shirt Boy is a problematic young man. Forced to leave his job because he kept provoking conflicts, he now finds some satisfaction as a member of a gang led by the failed actor Ancek. He gets no support at home either; his father has vanished without a trace and his mother has been unable to cope. Oldřich learns all this in the small hours of the following day, after waking up next to Yellow T-shirt Boy sobering-up station. The new father is so moved by the young man's life that he starts taking care of the boy. Yellow T-shirt Boy is distrustful at first but is finally glad to have found a friend in Oldřich. He invites him to join Ancek's gang. Oldřich sees that Ancek is a cynical man who teaches the young boys to steal and drink, and he confronts Ancek. There is a fight. Ancek is stronger and overpowers him. Embarrassed by the defeat, Oldřich abandons Yellow T-shirt Boy, who has stood by and kept out of the fight. He leaves with a tirade of scolding and offensive words. The sad boy in his yellow T-shirt is alone again.