May was filmed as a backdrop to part of a theatre performance D36-D37 under the E. F. Burian's lead inspired by the classic Czech poem of the same name by Karel Hynek Macha.
The mobilisation of the army changes the life of a young man. He becomes a figure on a chess board of war. A piece of shrapnel blinds him and his cries of "I cannot see" become a refrain symbolising the horrors of war."
"The film depicts a love story between a man and a woman which unfolds in simply sequences. The man seduces the woman and she follows him , entranced..."
