Outsider

Jožin Palát, the truck driver from the Napajedla stud farm, has two passions - horses and carrier pigeons. The latter requires Palát to steal grain. However, he is caught and sentenced to prison for several months. But it is Palát's fourteen-year old son who gets the worst of it - the director of the stud farm does not recommend the boy to study at the Chuchle training institution specialized in riding. Jožka, who basically grew up on the stud farm, cannot imagine life without horses; he, however, must begin to study at a secondary school of agriculture. He is utterly unhappy there and thus gets into conflicts with his schoolmates as well as the teachers right from the start. He cheers up only during the weekends spent at the stud farm. He is immersed in the problems of the enterprise through the young horse Palisander that suffers from an inborn leg impediment. The farm's director wants to sell the horse by international auction but no one is interested. The horse is saved from the slaughterhouse by the jockey Toník, who promises the director he will prepare the horse for racing. It is spring and father Palát returns from prison. He wants to leave Napajedla with his family but the son refuses to go. Toník must do his military service and the horse's training is taken over by Palát, while Jožka is supposed to ride it. The boy runs away from his boarding house to the trainings. His teacher complains about his absences to his father, who only now realizes how unhappy his son is at the school. Palát promises to help him enroll at the longed-for training institution. Palisander runs in the The Seven Race in Slušovice and wins. He has thus earned the right to live. The stud farm's director wants to introduce Jožka to the headmaster of the Chuchle training institution. This also means that the boy, too, will achieve his desired goal. They were two outsiders, and they both won.