Alois Švehlík

Memories of events that affected Czech philosopher Comenius’ work come to light while fellow Amsterdam resident Rembrandt paints his portrait.

Somewhere on the roof of a block of an apartment building in Prague, two men are standing at the precipice with the possibility a falling. Song is a 20-year-old Vietnamese man, who had been hoping for a brighter future in Europe.

ALOIS NEBEL tells the tale of a Czechoslovakian train dispatcher who is haunted by the events in which he played a part during the Second World War. In 1989, just as the Berlin wall falls, Alois ends up in an asylum, but when he gets out, he has no job and can't quite adjust to the new social and political realities. Just as he reaches the end of his tether, he meets a woman who might just provide the love and support he so badly needs.