Episode list

The prologue to the opening episode takes place on a bench in a park above Prague where a distraught young woman is sitting. She is the first of the patients of psychologist Marek Posta (Karel Roden). Her name is Sandra (Tatiana Pauhofová), she works as a nurse and has been receiving therapy for six months. After she gets over a fit of weeping in the psychologist's consulting room, she tells him about her experience the night before. She had had a tiff with her boyfriend Ondrej and he had given her an ultimatum involving their relationship, and she went with her female friend to a bar where she embarked on a sexual adventure with an unknown man. After she recapitulates the problems with Ondrej, Sandra makes a surprising confession: She has been in love with Marek for some time and longs for their sexual contact. Taken aback, the psychologist explains to her that the dividing line between him and his clients is sacred to him.

The second of the protagonist's patients, Igor Herman (Lukás Hejlík) appears in the consulting room for the first time. The self-confident young man reveals to Marek during the first session that he had had him checked out thoroughly. He discovered that Marek was the best in his profession... Then he tells the therapist the reasons for his visit: He served as a professional soldier in Afghanistan, acting as a forward air controller (FAC). During his last action he guided a bomber to a school where innocent civilians were killed instead of Taliban fighters. After he returned to Bohemia he went out with his dog and ran for so long that he almost collapsed from heart failure. The man longing for perfection recalls in detail how he experienced the critical moments of his clinical death. The psychologist begins to unravel a connection between Igor's Afghani experience and his physical failure.

In the prologue to the third episode the psychologist has a row with his wife over their sixteen-year old daughter. Klára (Berenika Kohoutová) accuses her father of not being interested in her... It is the first session for the fifteen-year old Linda (Michaela Doubravová) who needs from Marek an expert opinion stating that she is mentally healthy. The girl, whose arms are in plaster, has done competitive gymnastics since she was a child. Her injury is the result of a recent accident when she rode her bike under a car. It transpires that Linda may have caused it intentionally which she denies vehemently to Marek. The interview exposes her controversial relationship with her parents. The ambitious girl disdains her mother, a former actress, who disapproves of her sporting activities. She looks up to her father, a distinguished photographer who deserted the family long ago. She sees an unimpeachable authority in her coach Olda...

A married couple, Jana and Michal (Ana Geislerová and Martin Hofmann), come to Marek for a third session and as usual, Jana is late. In the prologue her suspicious husband tries in vain to get her a mobile... She is a former investigative journalist now working as chief editor for a popular tabloid magazine and has a son from her previous marriage. Having spent five years in treatment for infertility she is now pregnant. She is considering an abortion, which she seeks to justify on the grounds that she wants to go back to journalism. Authoritative Michal does not approve of her planned interruption and suspects other reasons behind his wife's stance. He thinks the psychologist should clearly answer the question whether she should have an abortion or not. Marek tries to convince him that to some questions there are no clear-cut answers. He begins to identify the deeper causes of the couple's disharmony.

The fifth episode is set in a place different from the preceding ones and the protagonist's role is completely reversed. Marek visits in an old tenement house his former colleague, Dita (Kamila Magálová) for whom he once worked as assistant and then parted company with her professionally. The widowed psychologist is retired and is writing a study related to her late husband Ivan. Marek recapitulates the cases that he is working on with his clients and intimates some doubts about his own procedures. He complains to Dita about his lack of patience and a loss of the necessary self-confidence. She questions him about his real relationship with Sandra. During the talk, in which their past disagreements re-emerge, he contemplates some more general problems faced by psychotherapists. Marek confesses to her about the disagreements with his daughter and the fact that his marriage is going through a serious crisis.