影片根据Hrabal的小说改编，影片描绘了一个小村庄中形形色色的单纯可爱的人们，他们有著各自的爱好，但打猎是他们的共同爱好。影片中的众多演员表演都十分出色，而且Vlacil在此片中也有一段很出色的表演。

About a young boy's passion for horses, his paralysis from polio, and subsequent triumph over his handicap by learning to ride. Village life of the period (just before World War I) is well evoked, and the boy's relationship to his wastrel father, anxious mother, and the somewhat scornful village kids is treated with so…

根据马克·吐温《汤姆·索亚历险记》改编，原著中的很多故事段子都有保留，但不若原著碎片化。