Carol is a harpist in an orchestra. The orchestra gives a Christmas concert in Prague. So Carol must go with the orchestra. She goes to Prague with her husband Jan and his father Josef. But Josef has a secret in Prague: Jan has a twin brother in Prague. Carol and her husband don’t know it. By accident, Carol sees him and thinks he is Jan. She crosses the street and calls him but he doesn’t recognize her because he is not Jan, he is his twin brother. At this moment a bus arrives and hurts Carol. Jan’s brother calls an ambulance. When Carol wakes up at the hospital, Jan, his father and his brother are there. Jan’s father relates the story.
I like this story because the characters are friendly and attractive. This story is realistic. The scheme is good. The story is sad because Jan and his brother were separated when they were younger and their mother died in December 1957 after Prague’s spring when she tried to leave Czechoslovakia with her brother to avoid the Russian repression. Josef always thought that his second son Pavel had been killed by the Russians with his mother as his step-mother had told him. But the end is happy because all the family is gathered for Christmas.