Temperatures are rising and crowds of people flock around the shores of Czech swimming pools every day like animals at a desert puddle. Screaming summer hits are silenced by reports of two missing boys. We are witnesses to an impending tragedy, which is a stage designed to colour the characters. The staff at the natural swimming pool approach the situation very lightly at first. During this season, lost children are dealt with every day. As time passes, the aggressiveness of the vacationers increases. Some are disgusted with the whole situation and want nothing to do with it. After all, they paid the entrance fee and no one is going to tell them how to behave or what to do. The others passively watch the situation from afar and all they can do is shout at the lifeguard who is trying to resolve the situation. The police arrive and everyone realises that things are getting tough. Parallel to the hectic action, we can follow the wanderings of two small boys who gradually move away from the swimming pool area and set off on an exploration with an unknown destination from which they may not return.

Anatomy of a Czech Afternoon is loosely inspired by a real event that took place in 2018 at the swimming pool in Lhotka, when two Vietnamese boys drowned in the lake during one afternoon. This case was initially grasped by the media in terms of xenophobia. The film attempts to move away from this theme and grasp the event as a minimalist, precise and universal study of crowd behaviour in the face of someone else's tragedy.

The film won the 2020 Magnesia Award, the 2020 Czech Lion Award for Best Short Film, the 2020 Czech Film Critics Award for Best Short Film and the Best Film and Best Editing awards at FAMUfest 2021.