Světlo je i za oponou – Kopcsányi Katarína (2019)

The true story of the blind sculptor Marianna Machalová-Jánošíková: "I was barely eleven, and suddenly the world began to fade before my eyes. As a child, I didn't understand it at all, but I believed the doctor that it was a trivial eye inflammation. I held onto this belief until the fading contrast and brightness of my visual perception allowed me, and my trust in the infallibility of the authority in the white coat cracked only when my mom lost her patience. She took me elsewhere, where suddenly diagnoses and prognoses were whispered in front of me and hidden in complicated names..." Thus begins an exciting and deeply human reading about the fate of young Marianna, who, due to illness, permanently loses her sight at the age of twenty-two. It is a novel that life itself has literally written. The events entering her life due to the gradual weakening of her sight, the support provided by her devoted mother, the memory of a fateful love – all of this weaves into a fascinating narrative about finding the mental strength to cope with fate – and ultimately becoming not only a recognized sculptor but, above all, an amazing human being living a fulfilled life.