The war must not be! A screen adaptation of Karel Čapek’s novel on the invention of an explosive escaping the inventor’s control. What if your scientific discovery turns into a terrifying tool of war in the hands of the power-hungry?
While Čapek wrote the story after the First World War, Otakar Vávra shot it with the knowledge of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by an atomic bomb. The story of MSc Prokop, who loses control over his invention of a highly explosive substance and watches it turn into a weapon of war threatening to wipe out the entire world, reflects the reality of scientific progress blooming in times of war and turning into a weapon. What is the inventor's relationship to their invention once it is used as a weapon?