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

Twelve-year-old Libor lost his parents in an automobile accident. He lives in luxury at the house of his rich uncle and aunt, has everything but lives a life barren of emotion. On the way back from a party at the boarding school for the children of the wealthy, Libor is kidnapped and held for ransom. However, Libor escapes his kidnappers and gets to a small railway station in South Bohemia. This is where the Panenka family lives, and after various emotional twists the boy realizes that he has found a home. And truly so, because they are mistaking him for someone else.