When her husband commits suicide, Jitka's world collapses. She will remain alone with an eight -year -old son who is moving away from her, her husband's family who blames Paul's death, and above all with harrowing questions she can't find answers. Why did he do it? Can I blame me? What will be with us now? And how do I start to live again? She has long months of groping, flesh and efforts to become a strong woman who can take care not only of herself, but mainly her child. The novel The survivors is the story of lonely souls that try to find their place in their own lives and ends in dead ends more often than they would like.