Трагикомичен филм за уникалния манталитет и бит на хората в Източна Словакия. Съдбите на Йоана Овшена и нейната незаконна дъщеря Павлина неочаквано си заприличват. И Йоана, която някога е живяла в провинцията като самотна майка, трябва да осъзнае, че дъщеря й прави същата грешка, която тя самата е допуснала преди години.

Děj slovenského filmu se odehrává v zapadlé vesnici a líčí život činorodé matky a její dospívající dcery poznamenaný trpkými zkušenostmi s mužskou bezohledností. Zápletka vzdáleně připomíná Feničův debut Džusový román: sedmnáctiletá Pavla (v podání Veroniky Jeníkové) - pocházející z dávné nemanželské známosti - otěhotní s nezodpovědným vojákem z Čech, který se musí ženit s jinou dívkou...(

Johanka had a fling with a well digger she had not met before and who, she was most likely certain, would never be around again. Just before his departure, they have sex and she eventually becomes single mother of a baby girl. 18 years later her (now 18-year-old) daughter Paulina commutes by bus to work in the nearby city, which gives the village gossips the occasional opportunity to remind her of her unknown father. A resultant conflict with her mother makes Paulina take up residence in the city. Johanka, prodded by her also-single friend Jozefka who maintains that a woman without a man is nothing, begins to woo the new teacher Jarek only to discover later that he is married. Paulina, in the meantime, loses her virginity to the soldier Jirka who promptly makes himself scarce. Johanka fails to consider that she actually has a better life than some of her married neighbors, begins to see.

Tragikomický príbeh, ktorý zachytáva mentalitu, spôsob života a osobitosti prostredia východoslovenského regiónu. Osudy Johany Ovšeny a jej dcéry Pavlíny sa vzájomne prelínajú, striedajú sa radosti i sklamania a Johana prežíva svoj osudný omyl opakovane v životnom príbehu svojej dcéry. Johana sa totiž kedysi zaľúbila a otehotnela. Čakal ju však neľahký údel slobodnej matky. Ľudia z dediny jej to jasne dávali najavo, ale Johana sa vďaka svojmu temperamentu v živote nestratila. Netušila však, že osud jej pripravil nečakané prekvapenie – aj dcéra Paulína sa prespí s vojakom. Johana sa však nevzdáva a za pomoci verného Bertyho a Jozefky sa všemožne snaží získať pre tehotnú dcéru „vstupenku do neba" v podobe vydaja...