Flowers & Sausages

A divorcée named Eva visits her old friend in England. An attractive woman in a non-stop bar thinks out loud about her sex life. A defendant loves her child, but loves spring onion-flavoured crisps even more. A pregnant woman should be looking forward to her child, but instead communicates with a toilet beetle. A naive man believes a lady from Brussels will sacrifice everything for him. A single mother wanders through the city with her young child, hoping to find a way out. Ľudovít returns from his mistress's and meets his daughter in the kitchen. Tired couples in a summer resort reveal their dirty laundry. Can baking soda and white vinegar clean everything up? And who will save us all? Jana Micenková (1980). She studied screenwriting and dramaturgy at FAMU in Prague. She made her literary debut with the short story collection Sladký život (Sweet Life) (2018), which was nominated for the Anasoft Litera award. She won 2nd place in the DRÁMA competition (2019) for her dramatic text Rekonštrukcia prípadu Janko Rybárik (Reconstruction of the Janko Rybárik Case). The text was performed as a staged reading at the Slovak National Theatre. In 2021, she published the psychological novel Krv je len voda (Blood Is Only Water), which analyses the genesis of a violent act and the breakdown of a dysfunctional family. The novel was nominated for the Anasoft Litera and René awards and has been published in Hungarian and Czech.