Sulik's film harks back to the Czech cinema's heyday of the 1960s. But it is both more fanciful and bizarre in its ten stories of people in a Slovak town who are inexplicably star-crossed, like the oaf called Wild Sibert, who can't seem to get his head screwed on right, figuratively and literally; or the not-so-innocent little boys who welcome the shifting occupational forces of war. As the mercurial loyalties of the postwar era stir the town, a tailor's fate is sewn up; and when a Jewish doctor comes back as a ghost, at least one soul is shaken. "Mystically apocryphal and chillingly authentic, pitting human foibles against inflexible authority to create a palpable air of wonder." (Variety)