The film is set in 1937. A married couple, a pregnant former medical student and a factory director, arrive in the town of Svit in the Spiš Region of Slovakia. Together with other Bata employees, they are to build a new town modeled on Zlín. However, the plan is thwarted by a mysterious discovery on the factory premises. Helena Hauptová, the former medicall student, is the only person who is interested in uncovering the truth, while the others come to terms with the story of suspected sabotage by Communist elements in the factory.