Milena

Prague 1920 Milenas 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 workers strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir