Josef Maršík is a railroad, he has a wife and children - and especially a grim father -in -law who looks mainly money, so he would like to get rid of his daughter's families so that they can rent their apartment better and more expensive. In order to secure Maršík the family, build a dream house with a terrace and a balcony, but he needs much more money! At that time he makes the first bad decision: he will give a dating ad. After all, there is money among single female…

The advertisement will be agreed by the aging single Elizabeth Válová, the servant that her former lady bequeathed - consider - seventeen thousand! Maršík cannot resist, so step by step is approaching an inevitable tragedy.

It was said that it really was, at least it states an advertising leaflet from 1932: Karel Čapek, Poláček's colleague from the Lidové noviny editorial office, had previously advised the author of many judges and humoristic novels to transform his knowledge of the judiciary newsletter into a more serious, larger shape. This was the first serious novel by Karel Poláček - the main heating.

Inspired he discovered in a two -part judge, which was published in the Czech word in 1928 under the name of the novel Services. A sad but almost trivial case of fraud and insidious murders for innocent maids developed Poláček into a reportage novel study, which despite its seriousness and tragicity does not lack such characteristic elements of irony, joke and genre details.

Poláček's main line was reworked in 1984 for Czechoslovak Radio Stanislav Neubert and staged by director Jan Lorman. In the role of Josef Maršík, František Husák showed an excellent performance, the character of a sensitive, naive and widening servant roller was played by Iva Janžurová.