Marečku, podejte mi pero!

Jiří Kroupa, a foreman in an agricultural machinery factory, could be promoted - but he would have to graduate from an evening industrial school. Mr. Kroupa vehemently resists this, but finally succumbs to the insistence of the members of the workshop committee and can enroll in the school. His son also attends the same educational institution, he even sits in the same desk during the day. Suddenly, it turns out that the father is far worse off than his little one. Can the parent repair his reputation and hold his own in front of professors and classmates?