Jurácek wrote this chill tale of a post–nuclear holocaust world the same year he cowrote the seminal Daisies with Vera Chytilová. While Daisies involved two women rebelling against a world dominated by men, this film features several women wandering a planet completely devoid of men. Years after nuclear war has decimated the earth, a ragtag collection of young women strive to survive in the wasteland that remains. Led by an older woman who still retains memories of what once was, they forage for food, kill with their hands, and amuse themselves with fire like pre- (or post-) historic cave dwellers, until they finally come across what could be the last man alive. Here Jurácek's wild-women-against-all theme serves as the science-fiction flip on similar concerns in Daisies; where Chytilová filled the screen with a riot of color, however, Jan Schmidt concocts a funeral march of grays and whites, creating a future where all color, and all humanity, have burned away.