Film Club MUZA: Chica Checa

A mother and son. Two lives. One family.

Fifty-five-year-old Zdena (Pavla Tomicova) appears to lead an ordinary life as a rural postal worker. But it is far from simple. Her house is falling apart, and she battles loneliness with cucumbers and television. Her son Lukáš (Jan Cina) lives in France - successful, happy, distant - or so it seems on the screen of an old computer, through which they occasionally stay in touch. When Lukáš's grandmother Věra (Věra Janků) expresses her final wish - to see Helena Vondráčková - it seems like the whim of a dying woman.

But when Lukáš returns home, he brings a secret he has carefully guarded for years. His visit sets off a chain reaction: he is gay and works as a successful drag queen named Chica Checa. And Zdena, too, yearns for a different life than those around her expect. Their attempt to make a ninety-year-old grandmother happy brings Lukáš and Zdena together and may surprise them both. Because when you stop lying to those closest to you, you must also stop lying to yourself...