I can't even see the darkness

Conversations about hope

Few people go through life without scars. But so much is piled on someone that we wonder how they can bear it? The well-known columnist Aleš Palán spoke with six women who have pulled a black Peter in their lives. They are conversations about the most difficult things that can happen to a person, yet they are not about pain and disappointment. They are about strength that is born only in the course of struggle, and about hope that is firm when tested. And the trials and tribulations these women experience are many...

One is newly of age, the second one is in his 80s, one lives in the city, the other in the countryside, they find support in faith, in humor, in defiance. They are different. What unites them is how indomitable and open they are. Six heartfelt stories that can serve as inspiration for women and men readers. Few people go through life without scars...

The interviews are accompanied by photographs by leading Czech photographer Alžběta Jungrová.