During the filming, Jan Tríska, an actor accustomed to luxury living in California spent two days in a Czech retirement home. He said that it affected him terribly to be there, but he voluntarily endured the suffering. The second morning, two people died in the place, just a few rooms away.
The screenplay written by Blanka Kubesová and Ivana Tajovská was based on Blanka's story Otec s velkým 'O' (Father with a Big 'F') that, as a play, was a finalist in Alfréd Radok Prizes for best original Czech and Slovak plays in 2004, then, as prose, was added to the second edition of the book Vltavenka, a story of an extraordinary woman based on authentic materials; in her youth, her father was a dominant figure and a reason why she ran away from the city and lived alone in a shack overlooking the river Vltava.