Batalion

Dr. František Uher is a pillar of the Prague legal establishment, a man whose life is defined by order, prestige, and a seemingly stable domesticity. This carefully constructed reality shatters when he discovers his wife’s infidelity, a betrayal that does not merely end his marriage but annihilates his sense of purpose. Abandoning his career and social standing, Uher descends into the city's underbelly, specifically a notorious tavern known as the Batalion. Here, among the 'Lumpenproletariat'—the drunks, the thieves, and the forgotten—he seeks a different kind of truth. His transformation from a man of the law to a fixture of the gutter is a harrowing exploration of psychological collapse and the thin veneer of bourgeois respectability.