Simon是一位感覺被生命遺忘的20歲的學生,某天,當他獨自在一家餐館吃飯時,遇見了一對同在餐館中,正在爭吵的夫婦。從此,Simon被這對關係如履薄冰的夫妻Viktor與Mária所深深吸引並發展成一段奇怪的三角關係,在這段關係中,Simon有時像個中間人,有時又是個障礙。Mária惱火著Viktor所說的:他們之間缺少激情。但清楚可見的是,在這段婚姻中,確實缺少了”柔情”。最終,Simon得到了人生的答案離開了這對夫婦:他之於人生,人生之於他,都是有意義的。A wonderful dark tale of coming of age in a country in transformation - then Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) in 1990s. Against the backdrop of a regime change and general crisis of basic values, a young man is finding his way into adult life. Playing a part in a love (hate?) triangle he does not fully understand until the conclusion, he desperately tries to make sense of the unpredictable behavior of the other two main characters which is linked to the secrets lurking in their past. All this while he is not sure about his own role in a world where yesterday's truths mean nothing today.