Barbara Zittwitz

A married man going astray hires a young waiter to watch his lover. This waiter fills in for him when he happens to have no time and is forced to deal with his wife. The paid friend takes his job more than seriously and is responsible for some surprises.

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.

A young woman between two men who fight for her in an unusual way.