Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins

The unbearable lightness of being gave Milan Kundera his international breakthrough. The Prague surgeon Tomas, who desires and at the same time fears women and celebrated his divorce like a wedding, wants to avoid love from now on. Only for the waitress Teresa he breaks with his principles. But Teresa leaves him in Zurich, where they settled after the Russian invasion of Prague, and returns to her home country. He follows her, loses his job, works as a window cleaner and later as a truck driver in a village far from Prague. Happiness ends in catastrophe.