[1] The film is a social drama dealing with the themes of children poverty and neglect.
When Honza and his mother are thrown out by Babula's father, the two children perform on the streets to earn money.
[1] Vančura was a Marxist and his ideas for the movie were influenced by a Russian educator Anton Makarenko.
The screenplay was written by an avantgarde writer Vítězslav Nezval, a literary theorist Roman Jakobson and a pedagogue Miloslav Disman.
The reviews mentioned amateurish direction and technical qualities of the movie.