It was directed by F. A. Brabec and based on seven of thirteen poems from Kytice, a collection of ballads by Karel Jaromír Erben.

The film narrates seven stories inspired by Erben's poems, with most of the dialogue taken directly from his works and depicted visually as happening from spring to winter.

In The Golden Spinning Wheel, a young king falls in love with Dornička, a beautiful maiden, and asks her stepmother for her hand.

An old wise man and his son find Dornička's remains in the forest and trick the women into giving them her limbs in exchange for a golden spinning wheel.

The last story, The Christmas Day, follows two girls, Hana and Marie, as they leave an old woman and their housework to venture out to a frozen lake, confident to see visions of the future in its icy waters.