It's hot. Terrible heat. And the paws of fate are inscrutable...
The plump Rebecca Voříšková, whom her classmates have come to perceive as a "bee" and a "sock", has to survive the July heat as long as possible. So she hid with all her XXL minds in the garden at home - but the magic of the holidays surpasses even a midsummer night's dream. A lonely sixth grader is approached by a canine tribe who, after an ancient spaceship crash, finally has a chance to reach the Promised Planet, even if it means saying goodbye to their earthly owners. Rebecca's rescue mission from the small town of Kostelce to the lion's den in Prague, where a seam in the control panel of a well-polished rocket is up for grabs, is accompanied by escapades enhanced by the advice of a grumpy dachshund, a talking black cat, a silent classmate and an all-powerful Vietnamese woman. The fellowship of these outsiders is endlessly pestered, catcalled and humanized, while the villains plot with the deviousness of bullfighters and the Russian-language mafia. What does The Great Gatsby say?
This mischievous slapstick, awarded the Golden Ribbon 2021 in the category of fiction for older children, has literally broken the chain in terms of genre. And he's going at such a pace that even a dog walker wonders.
