Czech pianist Eva lives with her Slovak composer-musician husband Peter in Kamenin. While the pair seems genuinely fond of one another, fissures are beginning to show: Peter's churlish obsession with his work comes at the expense of Eva's career, and village life is far different from the way she lived in Prague. She earns a bit of money playing for weddings and giving piano lessons, but a profound melancholy is settling over her. Two events disrupt their lives: First, they're forced to share