Conspirators of Pleasure

In Prague, Mr. Pivoňka buys pornography from Mr. Kula. A postwoman, Mrs. Malková, hands him a letter reading 'On Sunday' in cut-out letters, and she secretly rolls pieces of bread into little balls to carry in her satchel.

Pivoňka asks his neighbour, Mrs. Loubalová, to slaughter a chicken for him. He uses the leftover feathers and papier-mâché from the pornography to construct a chicken head and makes wings from umbrellas.

Police captain Weltinský buys rolling pins and pan lids from the same shop that sells Pivoňka's umbrellas. Using these items, plus stolen fur and sharp things, he constructs unusual objects in his workshop.

Pivoňka's wife, Anna Weltinská, feels neglected and buys live carp. She is unaware that Kula loves her image and has built a machine rigged to stroke and masturbate him when she is on television.

Pivoňka and Loubalová construct life-size effigies of each other, turning their rivalry into a tangible representation that will play into Sunday’s events.

On Sunday, Pivoňka drives to the countryside with his effigy, while Loubalová takes her effigy to an abandoned crypt containing a closet, a chair with candles, and a basin of water.

Loubalová emerges from the closet and whips her straw effigy, which is animated and reacts. Pivoňka, in a chicken outfit, struts around his own animated effigy in the crypt.

Pivoňka crushes his chicken effigy with a boulder, while Loubalová drowns hers in the basin.

Back at home, Malková shoves an unfeasible number of bread balls into her nose and ears and then takes a nap.

Weltinská strokes her carp and feeds them the bread balls Malková delivers, while Beltinský strips naked in his workshop and rubs his objects over his body.

When Weltinská reads the news, Kula turns on his machine and climaxes at the same time, stimulated by the carp sucking her toes under her desk.

On his way home, Pivoňka is fascinated by Weltinská's image in a television shop window and stops to buy electronic equipment magazines at Kula's shop.

Kula is now covering rolling pins with feathers; Malková looks longingly at a carp in a fishmonger’s window.

Pivoňka discovers that Loubalová has been killed in her flat by a boulder that seemingly dropped through her roof; Beltinský is investigating the murder.

Entering his own flat, Pivoňka sees the chair with candles and the basin of water awaiting him, and his closet door slowly opens, hinting at what comes next.