Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.
as Milena Jesenská
as Jesenski
as Olga
as Jaromir
as Pollak
as Max Brod
as Simon Foreman
as Lisa
as Kafka
as Von Vollmar
as Hermann Bahr
as Blei
as Young Woman
