Ten sen – Formanová Martina (2009)

When Daniela was twenty, she wanted to have it all. The best clothes, great acquaintances, her own apartment in Prague, and an excellent career. Everything that would allow her to forget that she was just an ordinary girl from Litoměřice who hadn't even graduated from high school. But Daniela was twenty during the time of Tuzex, hustlers, and omnipresent police, so it's no wonder that on her path to fulfilling her dreams, she became ensnared in such terrifying webs of lies, deceit, and suspicion that she chose emigration and severing all ties as her only possible escape. In America, Daniela managed to establish herself as a photographer, has a wonderful boyfriend, and closets full of all those colorful clothes she had always dreamed of. The past doesn't exist; it seems completely forgotten. However, that is only until Daniela's American boyfriend Mark insists on a joint trip to post-revolutionary Czechoslovakia. One cannot escape their own mistakes, faults, sins, and guilty conscience even on the other side of the globe, and Daniela knows this well. A gripping story by Martina Forman about the journey to fulfill secret dreams and the subsequent falls, about love and hatred, about the secrets we all carry within us, about ruthlessness and selflessness, about a time when one could not even trust oneself, and about the heavy...