A film about the three friends from a village below Karlštejn castle, one of which returns home from the war as a Russian, the second as a French legionnaire and the third as an Italian legionnaire. ...
An illustrative part: An unknown soldier carries a woman - symbol of Slavic patriotism.
The battle of Zborov: Dead soldier and rifle with bayonet stuck in the ground.
The battle of Zborov: Captured Austrian soldiers run in the trench.
Two Austrian soldiers give up without a fight to Russians.
Wounded Tomeš.
Austrian soldier with a rifle lying in the trench. A hand-grenade is in front of him.
An Austrian soldier in underwear, three Russian soldiers around him.
A message of Tomeš (farmer) to his friends after homecoming from the front and establishing of the independent Czechoslovak Republic: "None of us wants war! But woe to anyone who wants to hurt Czecho...