Robert Graves’ poem “Beauty in Trouble” inspired director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchosky to tell the romantic tale of an ordinary young woman Marcela (Geislerová) torn between two men. Her undeserving but beloved husband Jarda (Luknar) runs a chop shop where he transforms stolen cars into desirable vehicles. Marcela loses patience with her family’s financial woes and takes her children to her mother's home where they are subjected to the terror of a mean-spirited stepfather. At a low ebb, she meets Evzen (Josf Abrham), an elegant retiree who owns property in Tuscany as well as a villa in the Czech Republic and provides Marcela with a potential way out of her dreary life. With twists, turns and humor, Beauty in Trouble is an intricate genre piece with an unexpected paradoxical ending.