Sixteen-year old Bobina Gromová (Zuzana Ondrouchová) surrenders to the charms of a blue-eyed youth she meets at a dance and loses her virginity with him that same night. Only then do they introduce themselves and learn each other`s names. Their courtship is short-lived, the next day the assembler Pepík Bajcura leaves for Algeria to work on construction. After a while, a postcard of three camels arrives from him, with a short greeting. The letter that the pregnant Bobina writes to him is returned with a note that the addressee has died in an accident. The girl`s mother Bozena (Slávka Budínová) is single, just like her grandmother and great grandmother. This is why Bozena decides to resolve her daughter`s "problem" with an abortion.