Merry Christmas, Tereza

Christmas stories by twelve Czech authors

Tomáš wants to give his children and grandchildren the same white Christmas as it was when he was a child, and he is capable of anything to do so. Terezka doesn't want anything under the tree but a riding course, Julinka still believes in Santa Claus, but she has her doubts. A foreign chancellor wants to shoot a bear, Horáček is already stealing a tree in the forest. A mysterious man goes to a frozen river to catch fish for Christmas Eve dinner, Mrs. Hrdličková invites a homeless man to her home on Christmas Eve as she does every year, but she has one condition...

Twelve popular Czech authors wrote Christmas stories, that smells of pine needles and candy, whose heroes, as Christmas should be, making dreams come true for themselves and their loved ones, so maybe Santa will bring skates with fur, a puppy or a spiritual experience. It is Christmas, after all, and it is a time of miracles.