Orbis Pictus

Terezka is sixteen. She is put out of her school and handed a letter for her mother. She sets off. She is going to find her mother. The journey mixes the real and the imagined together. Strange people come into her path. One man is paid to burn clothes. A woman is standing buried in the ground. In a village a young bride is marrying a man much older than herself. The reason is to support her family. Terezka also visits her younger brother, who boards at a special school. Then she meets a television comedian, and then a mob figure. At the very end she finds her mother. The woman advises her to travel the world. Dorota Nvotová and Marián Labuda appear in the hundred and five minute film, a Slovak production Martin Šulík finished in 1997.