We must all pull together, or we will each hang separately. And what if not?

Even fifteen years after Fred's servant escaped from the Republic of Gilead, a cruel government based on the enslavement of healthy women capable of bearing children continues in the territory of New England. The state of the rotten regime is now brought up to us alternately by a trio of speakers whose positions could not be further from each other. Orthodox aunt Lydia, as a co-author of the Gilead ideology, meets Ágnes from among the local privileged, who, due to intrigues, found herself in her monastery as a novice. And both are approached from beyond the borders of free Canada by the rebel Daisy, searching for the ambiguities in her family tree. The three voices of the narrators gradually reveal unsuspected connections and the well-known truth that history rhymes maliciously. Even the Czechs once learned firsthand that even a world distorted by totalitarianism is not black and white and would not survive without the gray zone of private motivations. And that, above all, it cannot be done without love, which will always be stronger than death.

The long-awaited sequel to the bestseller The Handmaid's Tale. The book won the Booker Prize for the novel of the year 2019.


Performer: Taťjana Medvecká, Veronika Khek Kubařová, Eva Josefíková, Martin Myšička
length of recording: 14 hours 10 minutes