Pramen

An elegant doctor, Ingrid (Aňa Geislerová), works in the mid-1980s at a remote provincial hospital. She is trapped by an exhausted marriage and a stagnating career - spending most of her time with patients, delivering babies and ending unwanted pregnancies. She also performs sterilizations on Romani women without their full understanding of the consequences.

A new friendship with a young hospital orderly, Agáta, prompts Ingrid to question the rules she has hitherto followed without thought. Ivan Ostrochovsky's drama opens an unresolved chapter of Czechoslovak history, when the state decided who could have children.