The year is 1957. Almost all of the farmers in the Moravian village of Kunovice have joined the Unified Farmers` Cooperative. Joza Jagos (Radoslav Brzobohatý), the best farmer in the village, criticizes the poor management of the cooperative, the disorder, and theft, and refuses to have anything to do with the organization. He refuses to give in to the bombastic tactics of the Communist Party`s district committee representative Snopka, and prefers to work himself, his wife Nanka and their three children to exhaustion in order to produce the supplies stipulated by the state on time.