Milena Jesenská, the shadow of Kafka's lover among the fog of the Ravensbrück extermination camp. The news of the death of the journalist and translator came to him in the form of a letter, signed by one of his companions in misfortune.

Monika Zgustova (Prague, 1957) holds the hand (almost literally) of JesensKá, who appears to her among many other "shadows of women" during a visit by the author, and "tells her story"