When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.

Little Otik

Jindrich Polák's modern fairy tale comedy tells the story of a girl who unexpectedly inherits a fairground amusement - a haunted house from Vienna's Prater fun park. With the help of a magic timepiece she is able to bring three of the ghosts to life.

Kacenka a strasidla

In this direct follow-up to a fairy tale comedy Kacenka a strasidla (1993), the supernatural beings try to prevent their house of horrors from being reconstructed into an attractive villa. They count on the arrival of a Viennese notary who is to verify whether the fun park amusement is fulfilling its original purpose. After it's all been resolved, Kacenka's uncle puts on a bit of amateur theatricals in which the ghosts themselves humorously participate.