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Work on Saturday is over and typist Jirina Sejbalová is planning to go out with an older man -- one with money. When one phones her, she persuades her stay-out-home room mate Magda Maderova to accompany her. When the fellow they are with at a fancy restaurant has a friend come over, Miss Maderova doesn't notice, until the man offers her money, and she flees into the rainy night. There she meets Ladislav Struna, and they connect. Eventually he persuades her to come home with him.

Gustav Machatý's film would be a pre-code movie in the United States, with its implied subjects, but the people are ordinary people leading dreary lives, hoping for better. Hungary certainly had an ambitious film industry -- it's where Michael Curtiz and the Kordas got their starts there -- but was never able to compete effectively with Germany. As a result, their movies relied more on shock value of human sexuality. The performers seem ill at ease in their line readings, which might have been due to direction, or dodgy sound equipment.