The Courrier Who Vanished

A young man who flew into Prague checks in at the Tichý hotel as Michael Allan Jones, an Australian bohemist. The following day he leaves for Nové Město nad Metují. He searches in the city archive for the Jones ancestors. He is taken up by a young journalist, Marcela, who writes sci-fi short stories for newspapers. In the archive she searches for reports about the alleged fall of a meteorite in 1619. According to her theory, it was a flying saucer with an extra-terrestrial crew, which crashed to the Earth. Michael leaves for Prague with Marcela. Soon they are attracted. While on a walk in Prague, Jones spots a poster for a Kepler exhibition. Next to the picture of the scientist there is also his servitor. Michael recognizes the servitor as an extraterrestrial who landed on the Earth in 1619 and he is supposed to take him back to his home planet. Marcela has problems with her story. Michael is helping her with logical details, which clearly have happened. Marcela glimpses her husband in the film "An Invention for Destruction", and also on the picture next to the Czech writer, Karel Čapek, while writing his novel, "The Macropulos Secret". Marcela’s story, called Secret Agent from Levania, is published in a Saturday daily. The archivist from Nové Město nad Metují brings a document about Jones’s relatives. Michael shows him a picture on which the archivist recognizes a man who asked about Michael. At the hotel reception, Michael finds a message from his man – a courier. There is also attached a key from a deposit box on the railway Prague Central station. Jones takes out the deposit box. In the evening, he plays the tape from the courier to Marcela about the courier’s landing and his further stay on the Earth. Marcela considers it all a joke. The courier calls to Jones at night. He refuses to come back, as he got used to life on Earth. At the airport, Michael says goodbye to Marcela. He promises her that her short story will be published on the planet Pegas. Now the girl understands the truth. Moreover, she glimpses a man from the pictures on the terrace that Michael collected. The courier, accompanied by his wife and children, watches the takeoff of the airplane which will carry Michael to the extraterrestrial rocket.