Central Europe, 1930s: Czech physician Bartos (
Vlastimil Brodský) devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen (
Jirí Vala), now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch (
Martin Ruzek), considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion (
Marie Vásová), owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter (
Fred Delmare), with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa (
Frantisek Filipovský). Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.
—NFA.cz