When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.

• DirectorJan Švankmajer
• Release25 January 2001
• Genre
  Comedy / Fantasy
• Duration2h 12m
• Budget?
• Revenue$116,710
• Rate
  

  7.007
  144 reviews
• Productions

  ATHANOR, Illuminations Films