Ocelová křídla motýla – Kubašková Petra (2023)

Beneath layers of solid, impenetrable steel lies my true self. Young playwright Kryštof wrote a play about the pilot who gave the world The Little Prince. This was supposed to be his big day, but when the lights go out and the curtain rises, Kryštof realizes what it’s like to sit completely alone in a theater full of people… Because Šimon is no longer here. Journalist Kaira spends lonely evenings with her iguana. She is searching for a kindred spirit, but how can she find it when the path to it leads through her thirteenth chamber, which she prefers not to open? Translator Jan has spent most of his life behind a typewriter, over French novels. And his taciturn sister Eva, a hard-to-understand soul, has counted all the dwarfs in their garden. Move just one; Eva will know at first glance. How many forms does human loneliness take, and when will the Spider come? The steel wings of a butterfly are an excursion into human souls, sometimes venturing beneath the threshold of reality and one’s own consciousness. They are the story of people who reveal their true selves only to those who won’t break the fragile butterfly wings hidden beneath a thick layer of steel.