The discovery of a dead intersex infant amidst the rubble in the newly built factory town of Svit in 1937 sends shockwaves through a society fixated on only one kind of progress. This masterfully-crafted drama about privilege, prejudice and gender identity features a memorably tart-tongued heroine in pregnant Helena (Eliška Krenková), the beautiful young wife of slick factory manager Alois (Miroslav Konig). Helena, who dropped out of medical school, is serving as a nurse for a few hours each day at the factory. As she follows up on her own theory about the dead infant with her former mentor, and confronts the fears and biases of her new social coterie, her illusions about the happy life that awaits her soon perish. The smartly-written film encompasses a character study, a marital drama and a detective mystery, while also dropping hints about the historical disaster soon to come. –Alissa Simon