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- Based on real characters and events, this drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1969. Dagmar Buresová, a young female lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Jan's family in a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried to dishonor Palach's sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of Czechoslovakia.
- The businessman Charvát has been charged with corruption, fired from his post as general director, and, on his way to Marek's practice, was forced to dodge pushy tabloid journalists. He rejects Marek's expressions of empathy and tells him he's been taking anti-depressants. He mercilessly describes the current climate in the higher spheres of Czech business and politics. He remarks that, given the scandal he's involved in, he's become dead to the world of business. During his skeptical tirade he mentions his co-worker, who collaborated with the StB. Marek draws attention to Charvát's abnormal approach to those around him.
- In the prologue, Marek speaks with his daughter Klára (Berenika Kohoutová) and asks her about her intimate relationships. In the beginning of their session, the businessman Charvát emphasizes the value of money, and has his faithful chauffeur (Matej Hádek) bring him coffee into Marek's office. He denies the possibility of his repeated and sudden sick spells having anything to do with the escalating attacks on his person by the media. He expresses worry about the fate of his daughter Katerina, who is taking part in a Tantric seminar in Berlin. Marek challenges Charvát about his authoritative attitude towards those close to him, and observes that he may not be admitting his feelings of loneliness to himself.
- Marek's next patient arrives in a luxury limo driven by a chauffeur. The managing director of a construction company, Charvát (Jirí Ornest) brims with self-confidence and insists on the strict confidentiality of their meetings. He describes sudden bouts of heart-related discomfort. He refuses, however, to consider its link to the media-investigated tragedy during which two people died on one of his company's construction sites. The pragmatic self-made-man recounts his past as a signatory of the Charter 77. He describes his former efforts of a dissident as naive in light of the current reality on the Czech Republic. He reveals to Marek that he considers the source of his difficulties to be his daughter, who is currently living in Berlin.
- Instead of the businessman Charvát, his daughter Katerina (Pavla Beretová) shows up at Marek's office. She announces to Marek that her father fell into a deep depression. She speaks with contempt about her father's young wife and says that she considers the reason for her parents' divorce the fact that Charvát found his first wife's name on a list of the communist secret police collaborators. She mercilessly condemns her father's current business contacts with the mafia and former members of the secret police. She states that being a businessman has ruined his character. She reveals to the therapist that she's a lesbian and tells him about her coming out and about her intimate bond with her American girlfriend.
- In the prologue, Marek finds out that, thanks to the changes made to Igor's wife's testimony, the trial over the soldier Igor's death has been postponed. Charvát's session is once again attended by his daughter who tells Marek that her father has been arrested and is in detention. She relays her break-up with her American girlfriend and admits to being financially reliant on her father. Marek comments on her contradictory personality and incites her to more self-reliance. Suddenly, Charvát, who had been released from custody, appears in the office. He lays out his plan to hooks his daughter up with his driver, so that his daughter can continue her life of luxury.
- The shunned businessman and his daughter arrive at therapy together. Charvát doesn't hide the fact that his anxiety attacks are escalating under the ever-mounting media slurs. Katerina accuses her father of lacking morals while Charvát doesn't hesitate to point out that he pays for her life of luxury. The contrary young woman admits her lesbian relationship and leaves. During the ensuing conversation, Charvát plays threateningly with a gun, but it turns out to be a mere replica. He admits to Marek that he considers his chauffeur to be the only trustworthy person he knows, and that he therefore transferred all of his wealth to him.
- The businessman Charvát arrives at his session straight from the airport - he's just returned from Berlin, from an unplanned visit with his daughter Katerina. He demonstrates to Marek how many phones he has and skeptically describes both his professional and personal relationships. Then he describes his conflict with his daughter: he gets angry concerning her American girlfriend and the fact that his daughter lives in a squat. He describes her living situation and her new alternative look. Marek observes that Charvát must be losing control of his daughter, and that he clearly upset her with his insensitive meddling in her personal life. At the end of the session, Charvát finds out that the board of directors of his company is meeting without him.
- During his regular visit with Dita, Marek complains of his loneliness and the apparent indifference of his family. He returns to the case of his patient, the young student who has cancer. He's torn between his role as a therapist and his desire to save a young woman's life. Dita comments on Marek's unease, likens him to a trapped animal, and draws attention to his stubbornness regarding his father... Upon his return home, Marek is surprised to find that his supposedly indifferent family has gathered to celebrate his birthday. He tries talking his wife Alice into coming back to him, but she kindly refuses. During the course of the evening, Marek receives some sad news.
- In front of his mentor's house, Marek meets his friend Lenka again. We find out she was his first girlfriend. During his visit to Dita, he mentions the lawyer Tána and the cross-examination he was called to by the police as part of the case of the dead soldier. Ditaraises issue with Marek's feelings of guilt over Igor's tragic end. Then the conversation turns to Marek's mother, who suffered from depression and attempted suicide years go. We learn that Lenka, in fact, played an important role in that fateful night of his mother's suicide, a night which Marek remembers only in fragments.
- The fifth episode is set in a place different from the preceding ones and the protagonist's role is completely reversed. Marek visits in an old tenement house his former colleague, Dita (Kamila Magálová) for whom he once worked as assistant and then parted company with her professionally. The widowed psychologist is retired and is writing a study related to her late husband Ivan. Marek recapitulates the cases that he is working on with his clients and intimates some doubts about his own procedures. He complains to Dita about his lack of patience and a loss of the necessary self-confidence. She questions him about his real relationship with Sandra. During the talk, in which their past disagreements re-emerge, he contemplates some more general problems faced by psychotherapists. Marek confesses to her about the disagreements with his daughter and the fact that his marriage is going through a serious crisis.
- Marek undergoes a meeting with his wife Alice (Klára Melísková), whom he has recently moved away from. Alice mentions their daughter and their need for a property settlement. Before his evening visit with Dita, Marek happens to run into an old friend, Lenka (Zuzana Bydzovská). In his mentor's apartment, Marek notes that she rearranged the apartment's interior and began speaking in her native Slovak. Dita (Kamila Magálová) asks about his personal life and his relationship with Sandra, which destroyed his marriage. Marek recounts the story of the dead soldier, for which he's under the threat of losing his license and even going to prison. He asks Dita whether she would testify in his favor.
- In the prologue, Marek has breakfast with Lenka, with whom he spent the night. This old friend, however, refuses to begin a long-term relationship with him... During his evening visit to Dita, the therapist remembers that morning's encounter between Lenka and his wife Alice. He tells Dita about his father's funeral and about the case of the dead soldier, which was the subject of a defaming article in the tabloids. Dita tries to talk him out of his doubts and tries to convince him once again of his innocence... In the conclusion of the episode, Marek again comes face to face with the soldier Igor's father, who continues to accuse him of his son's death. Marek reacts to Herman's arrogant threats with a placating plea.
- In the prologue, Dita gets a phone call from her late husband's long-term mistress, who tries to talk Dita out of a meeting with her husband's love-child... During his evening visit, Marek relives his intimacy with Lenka. Dita analyzes his conflicting relationship with his parents: according to Dita his mother emotionally manipulated him, and, for a long time, Marek transferred his anger onto his father. She points again to Marek's tendency to play the victim. In the open ending, the roles are reversed: Dita shows Marek a photo of her husband's son and reveals her desperation. She asks Marek to help her sort out her failures and regrets.
- In the prologue, Dita is visited by a colleague of her late husband (Jirí Wohanka). During their conversations we learn that Ivan had a long-term relationship with another woman, with whom he had a son. Dita is devastated by this revelation... During their evening session, Marek describes a disturbing dream he had and returns to discussing the case of the dead soldier. He accuses Dita of being cold to her patients. She says he wants to play savior and that he's allowing his profession to keep him from taking care of his family. Marek mentions the businessman Charvát playing with a gun. He admits to being deeply skeptical as a therapist.
- Marek meets Lenka at a café, and they talk about that New Year's Day long ago, when Marek's unstable mother attempted suicide. Lenka mentions her own mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and her twenty-two-year-old son, who has been left handicapped in an accident. During his next visit with Dita, Marek recounts the difficult relationship with his father - a notorious womanizer who abandoned his family. Dita analyzes Marek's problematic emotional state and asks him to make peace with himself.
- Jakub (Jiri Havelka) hits Sarka (Ana Geislerova) with his bike. After he treats her injury in his little boat rental on the bank of the Vltava river, he invites her to dinner as an apology. Sarka visits her mother Carmen (Jana Svandova), who, having lost her popularity as an actress, is drowning her sorrows in liquor, as always. Zuzana (Jitka Cvancarova) and Milan (Hynek Cermak), a married couple, are facing a deep marriage crisis caused mainly by Milan's infidelities, which Zuzana knows about. Zuzana's colleague Ema (Anna Polívková) searches for love online. Her first date is catastrophic - her blind date leaves under the pretense of parking his car. Ema is in despair, thinking she is going to stay single forever because she is ugly. However, she ignores her colleague Karel (Radek Holub) though he's courting her. Jakub unexpectedly leaves his date with Sarka and rushes to his sister Halka, a heavily depressed lesbian artist. Unfortunately, he does not manage to save her.
- Because the arguments over Milan's infidelities escalate, Zuzana and Ema go out to a bar to cheer up. Ema, whose user name is Jaguar on the dating website, starts corresponding with a user called Mustang. She doesn't know that Mustang is, in fact, Milan. Milan is not aware of her identity either. Jakub's ex-girlfriend Marketa (Lenka Krobotova) enters the scene after the funeral of Jakub's sister, Halka. Sarka visits her mother again. She finds out that the alcohol-impaired Carmen confuses her famous roles with roles of her main rival, Lydie Kralova. She begins to worry about her. All of Halka's acquaintances meet at the postmortem opening of her photo exhibition, including Sarka, Linda, Jakub, and Marketa. Sarka and Jakub finally meet and everything gets clarified. Marketa then warns Sarka not to interfere and, that evening, seduces Jakub.
- Ema and Milan start calling each other frequently and are set to meet for the first time. Ema is afraid that Milan will not want her because of her appearance. Therefore, she pretends to be a famous actress who needs to stay anonymous. Milan, alias Mustang, agrees that they will meet in complete darkness in a hotel on the river. Sarka consults with her friend, the lesbian masseuse Linda (Jana Kolesarova), and decides that she will not let Jakub go so easily. She then visits him at work with a supposedly broken bike. They are interrupted by Marketa, who comes to tell Jakub about her pregnancy. Ema is glowing after her great sex with Milan. She gives her massage appointment with Linda to Zuzana to calm Zuzana down after her unceasing family quarrels. After the massage, Linda tells Zuzana she will not massage her again, because she wouldn't be able to stay professional. Zuzana leaves, offended. Afterwards, she finds out about one of Milan's infidelities when she calls the last received call on his phone. On the other side of the line, Sarka answers the phone.
- During the search of Natalia's murder scene, Dobosz finds Rebrow's lighter. Later, in Kalita's hiding place she finds the gun which was used to shoot Kosowski and Ewa, and also a Rebrow's blood stained shirt. Kalita and Rebrow are arrested.
- Jacek meets with Warsaw's most notorious crime lords to discuss disturbing developments triggered by Dario. Promised drug delivery has still not appeared, but Kuba keeps making deliveries to clients. Meanwhile, Bethlehem bursts into flames.
- Marie and Viktor return to Prague after 12 years in exile. But suddenly Viktor disappears in dramatic circumstances and Marie must find him in a Czechoslovakia that is far from being free - and with the spy agencies of several countries watching her every move.
- Marie gives Gerald a second chance and meets the mysterious Alexandra - and learns more than she bargained for about her missing husband. Meanwhile Berg continues to investigate against Vlach's explicit order, while his girlfriend Miluska takes bigger risks than she should.
- In disguise Marie loses herself in the city, avoiding her pursuers as she closes in on the truth about what happened to her and her husband. Berg's resolve will be tested in the military zone; Gerald carries out his own investigations, while Susanne plans her revenge on him.
- Marie wakes up in a psychiatric ward where she is effectively imprisoned. Gerald is desperate to resolve the situation with Viktor while Susanne hunts for them both. But November 1989 comes and goes, a new regime runs the country and Marie's dissident ex boyfriend Petr rises to power.
- Czechoslovakia is free. Marie's ex boyfriend, Petr, has a stellar career ahead of him as he begins a relationship with Miluska. Susanne thinks she holds all the cards but other sinister forces are at work - and finally Marie must face the bitter truth about her husband.
- The second of the protagonist's patients, Igor Herman (Lukás Hejlík) appears in the consulting room for the first time. The self-confident young man reveals to Marek during the first session that he had had him checked out thoroughly. He discovered that Marek was the best in his profession... Then he tells the therapist the reasons for his visit: He served as a professional soldier in Afghanistan, acting as a forward air controller (FAC). During his last action he guided a bomber to a school where innocent civilians were killed instead of Taliban fighters. After he returned to Bohemia he went out with his dog and ran for so long that he almost collapsed from heart failure. The man longing for perfection recalls in detail how he experienced the critical moments of his clinical death. The psychologist begins to unravel a connection between Igor's Afghani experience and his physical failure.
- A married couple, Jana and Michal (Ana Geislerová and Martin Hofmann), come to Marek for a third session and as usual, Jana is late. In the prologue her suspicious husband tries in vain to get her a mobile... She is a former investigative journalist now working as chief editor for a popular tabloid magazine and has a son from her previous marriage. Having spent five years in treatment for infertility she is now pregnant. She is considering an abortion, which she seeks to justify on the grounds that she wants to go back to journalism. Authoritative Michal does not approve of her planned interruption and suspects other reasons behind his wife's stance. He thinks the psychologist should clearly answer the question whether she should have an abortion or not. Marek tries to convince him that to some questions there are no clear-cut answers. He begins to identify the deeper causes of the couple's disharmony.
- In the prologue to the third episode the psychologist has a row with his wife over their sixteen-year old daughter. Klára (Berenika Kohoutová) accuses her father of not being interested in her... It is the first session for the fifteen-year old Linda (Michaela Doubravová) who needs from Marek an expert opinion stating that she is mentally healthy. The girl, whose arms are in plaster, has done competitive gymnastics since she was a child. Her injury is the result of a recent accident when she rode her bike under a car. It transpires that Linda may have caused it intentionally which she denies vehemently to Marek. The interview exposes her controversial relationship with her parents. The ambitious girl disdains her mother, a former actress, who disapproves of her sporting activities. She looks up to her father, a distinguished photographer who deserted the family long ago. She sees an unimpeachable authority in her coach Olda...
- Nina arrives at the session on her own, and says that the tense family relationships have taken a turn for the better. She recounts her husband's past and her own dreams of being a translator, which she had to give up after the birth of her son. Marek sheds doubt on Nina's perception of Victor's transformation - Marek thinks that the depressed boy is simply pretending to feel better so that he can please his parents. Then he talks to Victor about his conflict with a Vietnamese classmate and about his mother's abortion. The sensitive boy shows Marek anominous drawing of his family, which expresses his sense of hopelessness.
- Eleven-year-old Victor (Zdenek Barinka) arrives at Marek's practice. Marek is under the impression that they are supposed to discuss why the boy has been refusing his parents' joint custody. He finds out, however, that the confused Victor hasn't even been told his parents are about the divorce. Viktor's parents, Nina (Katerina Winterová) and Teodor (David Svehlík), arrive late. They begin to argue and insult one another almost the instant they enter. Marek sends Victor away for a while, so that he can make clear to his parents that they're not here to resolve their own problems but, rather, their son's. He refuses to play referee in their conflicts and draws attention to their ineffective communication with their son.
- Nina is out of the country, at the moment, and thus doesn't take part in the sitting. Teodor recaps the last two weeks, during which Victor has been staying with him and during which time his behavior and grades in school rapidly worsened. Marek observes that this is probably Victor's reaction to his mother's absence. Viktor shows the psychologist his drawings: they include his imaginary brother, whom his mother aborted. Teodor admits to the therapist that he had an argument with his current girlfriend over Victor. Teodor even touches on his relationship with his father, who hated Nina because of her Russian origin.
- Viktor has changed his look to Emo, imitating a group of teens he met in the park. He declares that his parents don't interest him anymore and ostentatiously ignores his father after his arrival. Teodor relays his problems with his girlfriend and asks after his wife. Nina arrives at therapy straight from the airport, where she was dropping off her new boyfriend. She admits to being in love with him, and insists on her moving to London. Marek points out that the Neumanns are being incredibly selfish, at which point the Neumanns argue again. Their disappointed son expresses his wish to live with his grandmother.
- Viktor arrives at therapy without his parents and describes his hopelessness over his family's worsening relationships. He describes a conflict with his Vietnamese classmate, which culminated in a fist-fight... During the following session, Teodor reacts to the news of his son being bullied with a racist rant. It comes out that Nina is considering an offer to move to London, where she intends to start a new career and where she wants to move her son for good. Her husband doesn't agree with her decision, and hurls jealous reproaches at her. In the end, Victor runs away into a nearby park and confesses to Marek that he would prefer to live with him.
- In the prologue, Marek says goodbye to his son (Jan Cina), who is leaving for Olomouc to continue his studies. Marek suggests that they organize a family gathering to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Viktor's mother is the first to arrive at their session, this time. She mentions her Russian origins. She then makes a jealous scene in front of her husband and son over Teodor's new girlfriend. We find out that the Neumanns have had serious sexual problems. Marek brings the angry couple's attention to the fact that Victor is a helpless victim of their unresolved conflicts.
- The prologue to the opening episode takes place on a bench in a park above Prague where a distraught young woman is sitting. She is the first of the patients of psychologist Marek Posta (Karel Roden). Her name is Sandra (Tatiana Pauhofová), she works as a nurse and has been receiving therapy for six months. After she gets over a fit of weeping in the psychologist's consulting room, she tells him about her experience the night before. She had had a tiff with her boyfriend Ondrej and he had given her an ultimatum involving their relationship, and she went with her female friend to a bar where she embarked on a sexual adventure with an unknown man. After she recapitulates the problems with Ondrej, Sandra makes a surprising confession: She has been in love with Marek for some time and longs for their sexual contact. Taken aback, the psychologist explains to her that the dividing line between him and his clients is sacred to him.
- The THERAPY series is unique for its psychological depth, well developed characters and the setting, mostly concentrated in one area. Most of the story takes place in the consulting room of psychologist Marek Posta (Karel Roden) who attends to several patients with a variety of traumas during the weekdays. Every Monday the psychologist receives a saucy Sandra (Tatiana Pauhofová) who confesses in the opening episode that she is in love with Marek. On Tuesday it is the turn of a former soldier returned from Afghanistan (Lukás Hejlík) who reveals his traumas from the war and from being brought up by his father. On Wednesday the psychologist meets a young gymnast, Linda (Michaela Doubravová) whose pretended pubertal self-confidence masks an inner vulnerability. On Thursday he is visited by a married couple (Ana Geislerová and Martin Hofmann) who cannot decide whether they should have an abortion. Every Friday the protagonist visits his older colleague, Dita, to discuss his uncertainties and family problems. Dita is portrayed by the well-known Slovak actress Kamila Magálová. The psychologist's wife, with whom he is going through a family crisis, is played by Klára Melísková. Their teenage daughter, with whom Marek does not have much in common, is played by Berenika Kohoutová.
- 1989, on the cusp of the Velvet Revoluition, Marie and her husband Viktor return home in Prague after years of exile. After a car accident, Marie wakes up from a coma with no trace of Viktor.
- The body of a young woman is discovered in the icy river. The investigation is led by Zawieja for whom solving the case will be a fight for herself.
- The self-assured lawyer Tána recounts how she recently celebrated a case she won: she met a stranger at the bar, a younger man, and spent the night with him. Marek perceives Tána's excesses as an absurd need to devalue herself and reveals Tána's relationship with her parents. It becomes clear that the conflicted Tána worships her father, and is unable to criticize him, while she openly devalues her mother. Tána mentions her mother's post-partum depression and her own childhood, which she spent with her grandmother. During this intimate conversation, Tána stops taking the offensive. Marek draws attention to Tána's hidden sense of hopelessness.
- The beginning of Tána's visit revolves around the case of the dead soldier Igor. The self-assured lawyer warns Marek once again of the possible outcome of the trial and makes clear to him how difficult it is to prove what happened in cases such as this. Then she admits to him that she's having an affair with her colleague from the firm, but that he's refusing to get a divorce. She expresses her desperate desire to have a child and her trauma caused by an abortion she had a long time ago, for which she holds Marek partially responsible. At the end of their meeting, she implores Marek to find her a romantic partner, but Marek refuses her provocative requests.
- In the prologue to the opening episode, Marek, who has moved away from his family to live alone, is visited by the father of the deceased soldier Igor. The arrogant army officer Herman (Jirí Stepnicka) accuses the unsuspecting psychologist of playing a part in his son's death, and threatens to bring him to court and even put him behind bars. The threat of a trial brings Marek Posta to contact his old friend, the successful lawyer Tána (Tereza Brodská). The consultation that takes place in her office gives him no respite. On the contrary, he finds that he could be charged with "moving a patient to suicide." At the end of Marek and Tána's meeting, we find that the lonely lawyer Tána was Marek's client twenty years ago.
- The rather self-involved lawyer Tána gives her condolences to Marek after the death of his father, which caused him to cancel all his appointments for the preceding week. She's in a sprightly mood as she tells him that she's pregnant and that she decided to be a single mother. She then turns back to the case of the dead soldier, and Marek reprimands her for repeatedly directing the conversation away from her own issues. The lawyer reflects for a moment about child-rearing, which she considers the ultimate test of romantic relationships. In a sudden onslaught of honesty, she calls herself a spoiled brat and, at the end of her session, says she regrets that the accidentally conceived child isn't Marek's.
- The lawyer Tána arrives at her sitting in a state of distress. She announces to Marek that she intends to end therapy and that she has decided to sell her share of the law firm she works at. Based on information from her mother, she discusses her parents' relationship: her father had many mistresses, yet refused to get a divorce. She mentions the suicide again and once again attempts to seduce the hesitant therapist. Marek interprets her seductive behavior as an attempt to conquer men. The bitter lawyer tells Marek that he's uptight, and compares him to a killjoy. At the inconclusive ending, though, she expresses admiration for his line of work.
- In the prologue, Marek meets the dead soldier's widow (Petra Spalková). They discuss her testimony at the police station along with the inconclusive circumstances of Igor's death... The lawyer Tána tells Marek that her supposed pregnancy must have only been a product of autosuggestion. Marek points out to her that, in both her private and professional life, Tána tends to find herself tangled in lies. The lawyer describes a visit with her mother, who angered Tána with her unyielding concern. The therapist touches again on Tána's contentious relationship with her parents, and observes that she seems to be systematically punishing the men in her life.
- At the beginning of his meeting with Tána, Marek recounts his cross-examination by the police. The lawyer Tána mentions her relationship with a married man again and reminds Marek of his supposed affair with the nurse Sandra. She thus opens the larger subject of intimacy between therapists and their clients. During their conversation, Tána loses her temper several times and, at the same time, provokes Marek with her seductiveness. She then bitterly complains of her lack of success with men, whom she says she subconsciously drives away. At the end of their conversation, she agrees to go back to therapy with Marek.
- The Neumann's son is alone with Marek at the beginning of the session, and has time to tell him about his problems. He mentions not being able to sleep well and says his best friend is Pavlínka, a girl he goes to school with. He complains about being bullied by a Vietnamese classmate and talks about his feelings of guilt about his parents' arguments. His parents eventually arrive at the session, and Teodor gives his son a new cell phone. Nina begins to express doubts about the planned divorce, and implores her husband not to leave her. Teodor refuses, and admits to having found someone else.
- During Viola's session, her problematic relationship with her parents and brother come to light. The seriously ill Viola tells Marek about her mother, who was supposed to begin a promising career as a dancer. She admits to feeling both empathy and anger at her schizophrenic brother, who recently disappeared from the hospital he was in. After receiving a call from the police, she wishes to contact her brother David immediately, but she faints with exhaustion in Marek's office. Marek implores her once again to immediately seek help for her illness, and he personally accompanies her to the hospital.
- The seriously ill student Viola recounts her conflict with her ex-boyfriend Tomás. She's angry at him for telling his current girlfriend about her illness. She tells the story of her complicated relationship with Tomás, with whom she recently spent a night, though they didn't have sex. She talks about her older brother David, who suffers from schizophrenia and has an extraordinary gift for intuition. Marek implores Viola to begin seeking medical attention for her cancer. At the end of their meeting, Marek at least convinces her to stay in contact with him.
- Another one of Marek's clients is the architecture student Viola (Tereza Vorísková). The conversation begins with Viola telling him the basic facts of her life. She mentions her recent break-up with her boyfriend and her relationship with her older brother, who suffers from schizophrenia. She reveals that she severed contact with a previous therapist, not long ago. Marek wants to know why. Viola, however, talks about her former therapist with nothing but contempt. Marek soon gains Viola's trust and she confides in him something she has kept secret until now: she has cancer, lymphoma in her chest. She hasn't even told her parents.