Lukáš Valíšek

During a night train journey to Prague, a disgraced minister of justice meets an ambitious young woman. This chance encounter gives rise to an unexpectedly close relationship over the course of a single night. In a labyrinth of secret lovers, unexpected revelations, and drunken reckonings with the past, both women are forced to confront their own loneliness, unfulfilled ambitions, and deep need for genuine human connection.

This stylised short film follows the unexpected intertwining of the fates of a young man, who applies for housing benefit during the day, and the clerk who processes his application. When they meet by chance in a bar that evening and events take an unexpected turn, they both end up in his flat. During their late-night conversation, the clerk reveals the absurdity of her daily work at the office – a world full of nonsensical rules, powerlessness and alienation, which is disturbingly reminiscent of a Kafkaesque labyrinth. This intimate drama, laced with black humour, shows that the victims of bureaucracy are not only its clients, but also those who carry it out.

A group of young friends on a night out with a clear plan: to get drunk. But how can people understand each other without listening?

During a night train journey to Prague, a disgraced minister of justice meets an ambitious young woman. This chance encounter gives rise to an unexpectedly close relationship over the course of a single night. In a labyrinth of secret lovers, unexpected revelations, and drunken reckonings with the past, both women are forced to confront their own loneliness, unfulfilled ambitions, and deep need for genuine human connection.

During a night train journey to Prague, a disgraced minister of justice meets an ambitious young woman. This chance encounter gives rise to an unexpectedly close relationship over the course of a single night. In a labyrinth of secret lovers, unexpected revelations, and drunken reckonings with the past, both women are forced to confront their own loneliness, unfulfilled ambitions, and deep need for genuine human connection.

This stylised short film follows the unexpected intertwining of the fates of a young man, who applies for housing benefit during the day, and the clerk who processes his application. When they meet by chance in a bar that evening and events take an unexpected turn, they both end up in his flat. During their late-night conversation, the clerk reveals the absurdity of her daily work at the office – a world full of nonsensical rules, powerlessness and alienation, which is disturbingly reminiscent of a Kafkaesque labyrinth. This intimate drama, laced with black humour, shows that the victims of bureaucracy are not only its clients, but also those who carry it out.

A group of young friends on a night out with a clear plan: to get drunk. But how can people understand each other without listening?