The novel and its dramatization based on actual events: renowned lawyer and member of the socially falls for his wife's infidelity revealed. Drinks and survives in a brothel inn called Battalion. It will be the legal advisor galleries, and when he dies. His friends at the grave singing his favorite song "Gone is gone and everything." After a silent film from 1927, one of the masterpieces of Czech cinematography 20th Years, somewhat more popular and plačtivější version of the popular original.