The title of the show refers to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the state established in the Czech lands following the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, at the beginning of World War II.
An isolated farmhouse in the Beskydy Mountains was redecorated in period style,[2][1] with some technical equipment, such as electrical lighting, installed on safety grounds.
After a period of settling in and acclimatising to the low rations and other laws of the protectorate, the radio gave information on the developing critical situation regarding Nazi Germany.
Situations were created by actors such as the seller (who also brought news and some black market goods), representing the full scale of characters during the war, including collaborators, resistance fighters, German soldiers and the Gestapo.
[2] In response, Cejnkova stated that the program's creators were approaching the topic "with utter seriousness", had intended to open a discussion, and were "aware that it is controversial to return to so turbulent a period", adding that they believed "that it is correct to attempt to do this, providing that certain ethical rules and historical reality are observed.
[12][13] However, criticism from some historians and commentators continued, with Mikuláš Kroupa of Post Bellum saying that the show had "nothing to do with history or telling the stories of that time" and was "just a game".