The two families, led by dominant fathers, have completely different approaches to life and the landscape. The chance to change the strained relationships comes with the first expressions of love between their teenage offspring. "Three generations intersect in Sucho, the oldest representing recklessness, the youngest giving hope in managing interpersonal relationships outside and inside the families, but also in connecting with the landscape we live in. The story of a feud between two clans also touches on sensitive moments, such as accepting the illness of a loved one or love in the tense relationships of different neighbouring families," says director Bohdan Sláma. The film works with elements of humour, the ridiculousness of life's attitudes; it is not a comedy, but neither is it a pure tragedy. "It is a drama of human emotions, it has both comic and tragic elements. There is humour and it is a family film," says Sláma. Another character in the film is the landscape where Drought is set. The film was shot in a picturesque, undulating part of South Moravia that has been compared to Italian Tuscany, in the surrounding villages of Krumvíř, Archlebov and Dambořice. In addition, the crew also used Prague or Berlin. The script was written by Bohdan Sláma himself, and shot in a wide-angle cinemascopic format by his court cameraman Diviš Marek. The producers are Pavel Strnad and Petr Oukropec, who are behind all of the director's original films, including the successful Baba of Ice from 2017, awarded the Czech Lion for the best Czech film of the year.

Bohdan Sláma, the winner of many Czech Lions and many foreign awards, directed the story of the tense coexistence of two neighbouring family clans in one village.