Young Pína enters a prestigious hotel school after his apprenticeship, and just as the story of his studies and subsequent career unfolds, so does the frantic era of the crooked eighties in what was then Czechoslovakia. How does a young waiter contend with the written and unwritten rules of a socialist society and how does he get through life, which throws many famous personalities and many love affairs in his way?

This book is a free, partly biographical continuation of Josef Kádi Kadeřábek's successful first book The Seventies, or Hotel in the Whirlwind of Time.