“Forman's first international hit, this film played for 27 weeks on the Sunset Strip. It is the story of diffident, cautious Andula, who works in a factory and lives in a hostel with a group of girls. She finally decides to trust a lover, but her ‘romance' goes miserably and subtly and absurdly astray. The New York Times wrote: ‘Sparkling... delightful and unusual... It senses and spots, yet shies away from, the vagrant hungers and longings of youth.... It is human, true, but understated - inconclusive, indeed, as is life....'”