It’s a summer day, after a storm, probably in Prague, maybe this year or next year. Two women, Lola and Marta, daughter and mother, carry a heavy burden, take turns supporting each other and then go their separate ways. Lola is sweet sixteen, but she doesn’t feel very sweet. Marta feels that when she stops flirting, life will end. They both bitterly miss the one who disappeared from their lives and still hasn’t returned. Esterházy!

A funeral feast is being prepared in the hotel where Marta works, and toast with garlic is being made in the kitchen. Meanwhile, in the honeymoon suite, an Indian bride has gone mad and is mixing fried eggs with orange juice… Will we have gathered enough clues to reconstruct the disappearance of the missing man by tonight? And who the hell was Esterhazy?

“A typical stream of narrative, unfolding from the thought processes and associations of the main characters, regularly enhanced by energetic and naturally flowing dialogue, it shows how the events of a busy day turn into nothing in the shadow of an something unattainable.”

— iLiteratura

“The novella ‘All Day Nothing Happens’ represents a new stream of Czech literature that no longer returns to the past. This year, this current is particularly pronounced and confirms that it is possible to find interesting contemporary themes. It is a gratifying trend; the constant attempts to come to terms with the past, with the trauma of war and the communist regime, were becoming monotonous and uninteresting.”

— Vaše literatura