After the disappearance of her daughter, a woman lives trapped in unresolved grief and develops an obsession: to become a mother again at any cost. Meanwhile, the girl she believes she has lost grows up in Argentina under a false identity and, now a teenager, seeks to reunite with her real mother. When a secret from the past comes to light, desperation pushes the woman to cross an irreversible line, confronting two opposing forms of motherhood.
What is a woman capable of doing after losing her daughter when time is running out for her to become a mother again?
Šárka Jordanová is a dentist whose life is forever marked in 2004, when her five-year-old daughter Iglika is abducted by her own father and illegally taken out of the country. Since then, Šárka has lived without knowing whether the girl is alive or dead. The case is never solved, and the absence becomes the absolute axis of her existence.
But Iglika is alive. She grows up in Buenos Aires under a false identity, raised by her father, who separated her from her mother as punishment. In the present, now a teenager, Iglika feels an increasingly intense need to meet her mother. On her fifteenth birthday, her father promises she will be able to travel to Europe to reunite with her.
Meanwhile, the absence of her daughter completely defines Šárka’s life. Unable to process her grief, she develops an obsession: becoming a mother again as a way to fill the void. For years, she attempts to get pregnant through sexual encounters with anonymous men she never sees again. She does not seek a relationship or a family—only a child. The attempts fail one after another, her psychological stability deteriorates, and the pressure of age intensifies her urgency, pushing her toward increasingly radical decisions.
At the same time, Šárka runs the support group “Forget Me Not,” for women whose children have disappeared without a trace. There she met Terezie, an older woman who since 1968 has believed she lost her young daughter. Terezie rebuilt her life and had another daughter, Dora, who is now an adult, a mother of one child, and pregnant with her second. For decades, Terezie clung to the hope that her first daughter was still alive, a belief that deeply bonded her to Šárka.
That illusion shatters when Terezie’s ex-husband, gravely ill with cancer, decides to confess the truth before dying. He reveals that the girl was murdered by a friend while Terezie was pregnant with Dora. The crime was concealed to prevent her from losing the pregnancy. Suddenly, Terezie realizes she has lived a lie.
This revelation becomes the trigger. Šárka finally manages to become pregnant, but emotionally devastated by the confession, she loses the fetus in the third month. Convinced that life has been unfair and that she deserves to be a mother as much as any other woman, she crosses an irreversible line. When Dora gives birth to her second baby, Šárka kidnaps the newborn and leaves a note justifying her act: “Forget Me Not.”
The abduction takes place on the very day Iglika returns from Argentina to reunite with her mother. The ending confronts two opposing forms of motherhood: one recovered after years of separation, and another constructed through an extreme act born of pain, obsession, and unprocessed loss.
RELEVANT INFORMATION: Lenka Chalupová is a Czech writer and journalist whose work has gained a wide readership thanks to her blend of historical fiction and mystery. Since her debut, she has published more than a dozen titles combining dramatic and investigative plots with a deep connection to the country’s history. She has been recognized with the Olomouc District Literature Award, underscoring both her narrative quality and her impact on the contemporary Czech literary scene.
Forget-Me-Not Mothers is a novel that stands halfway between drama and psychological thriller, gripping readers from its very first pages through the strength of its central conflict. The author builds a solid and emotionally unsettling plot supported by complex female characters and family secrets revealed progressively. Its universal themes of identity, guilt, and motherhood make it easily adaptable to different contexts and give it strong potential for audiovisual adaptation as a feature film or miniseries.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Feature Film, TV Movie.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Czech.
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