Larks on a String
A tender, gently comic romance set amid political oppression, where human connection and longing persist despite ideological coercion.
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
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