Milan Kundera tells a story with immense wit and a dancing lightness about a Bohemian spa, whose spring water is said to heal women's infertility. Here we meet: the nurse Rosa, who becomes pregnant after just one night with Klima, the trumpeter of the spa orchestra; Klima, who loves his wife Kamila and pressures Rosa to have an abortion; Franta, who is madly in love with Rosa; the gynecologist Dr. Skreta; and Jakub, who wants to leave the country and must say goodbye to his adopted daughter Olga. A lively waltz around the eternal questions: Why does love only complicate everything? And what does true freedom really mean?.