On a rainy night, a stranger, George Sydney, is late for his train and seeks refuge in the home of a railway guard. There, he spots Andreea, the young and beautiful daughter of the watchman. The naive girl succumbs to his charms and, after becoming pregnant, decides to leave home and start a new life. A few years later, happily married, she meets Georg again and has to choose between domestic happiness and passion. This is one of the most important works of Czech silent cinema, combining avant-garde means of expression with traditional narrative structures, and almost all the main themes of the 1930s. The main artistic trends of the 20th century, from modernism to surrealism.