Milan Kundera

Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided that he is the father. And so begins a comedy which unfolds with increasing speed.

A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality.

The story of a young man's love affair in Czechoslovakia during the Russian Communist Regime.

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy - in fact, all of human existence.

CONTENT WARNING: contains scenes of a sexual nature