Summary
In a Czechoslovakian dreamscape where porcelain faces mirror each other like twin moons, Adam and Eva—boy-girl siblings born under an identical mask—carve childhood scars into the village’s collective memory; she swaps communion wine for ink, he is caned; she loosens the bell-tower ladder, he limps through winter. Years condense into sepia dusk: Eva’s mischief has metastasized into urbane cruelty, Adam’s silence calcifies into obsidian resolve. Discovering that Dr. Prokop Novotný—white-coated emblem of rational order—has mailed velvet letters to his sister, Adam razors off his masculinity in the candlelit gloom of a defunct theater: greasepaint, corset, auburn wig. The metamorphosis is surgical; in the mirror, Eve stares back at Eve. Masquerading as his sister, Adam intercepts the doctor beneath horse-chestnut chandeliers, whispers scandalous absurdities, dismantles courtship with surgical glee, then vanishes, leaving the real Eva to cradle the shards of a suitor who flees into the Carpathian night. Guilt ricochets; identities blur like wet charcoal; the final reel freezes on a single silhouette—half Adam, half Eva—unable to step out of the split frame.
Synopsis
Twins Adam and Eva are so alike, it is impossible to tell them apart, which enables the malicious Eva to get away with all sorts of naughty tricks and leave the blame to fall on Adam. The pair grows up and Adam decides to pay Eva back for the tricks she played on him in the past. When he discovers that the handsome Dr Prokop Novotny is interested in Eva, he dresses up as Eva and startles the suitor.
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