‘We’re the same, you and me,’ said Douglas, ‘we’re hard to kill off.’ Eva McKinley is faced with agonizing choices. Can she bear to accept her father-in-law Douglas’ plea for assisted suicide? But time is running out for her too. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, she struggles to decide whether to continue life with an unfaithful husband or break free to take her last chance to discover the truth about her family’s origins in Prague and why they had to flee the 1968 Prague Uprising.
Flung together with her best friend Roz who is escaping from her own complicated life, the women cope in different ways with the unwelcoming atmosphere of a Czech culture undergoing its own transformation. Their relationship comes under pressure when new people enter Eva’s life and she is faced with a tangled web of secrets and half-truths. Who can she trust? Where does she really belong?
‘We’re the same, you and me,’ said Douglas, ‘we’re hard to kill off.’ Eva McKinley is faced with agonizing choices. Can she bear to accept her father-in-law Douglas’ plea for assisted suicide? But time is running out for her too. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, she struggles to decide whether to continue life with an unfaithful husband or break free to take her last chance to discover the truth about her family’s origins in Prague and why they had to flee the 1968 Prague Uprising.
Flung together with her best friend Roz who is escaping from her own complicated life, the women cope in different ways with the unwelcoming atmosphere of a Czech culture undergoing its own transformation. Their relationship comes under pressure when new people enter Eva’s life and she is faced with a tangled web of secrets and half-truths. Who can she trust? Where does she really belong?