Up And Down

Weaving together the stories of a disparate group of men and women in contemporary Prague, director Jan Hrebejk presents a generous slice of life in the newly free and increasingly multicultural Czech Republic. What begins as just another night for two Czechs who smuggle undocumented Slovakian refugees across the border turns into something a bit more complicated when, shortly after dumping their human cargo, they realize that something has been left in the back of their truck: a baby. Returning to the seedy Prague pawn shop from which their boss, Eman (Pavel Liska), runs his petty criminal empire, the smugglers hand the infant over to Eman's mother, who sets about t...