On August 1, 1937, Paris said goodbye to Gerda Taro, an anti-fascist and the first female photojournalist to die in civil war-torn Spain. That day she would have turned 27 years old. Gerda Tarot is the main nerve of the kaleidoscope novel. Willy Chardak, Ruth Cerf and Georg Kuritzkes remember what she was like: fickle, elusive, headstrong; sincere, generous, brave. The reader is presented with a series of historical figures and events of the 1930s era, which included economic depression, Nazism, xenophobia, a war of ideologies and ideals, cultural unrest, the struggle for justice and a better world and, of course, the incredible rise of reportage photography. The novel by writer and translator Helena Janeček, based on facts and documents, was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize in Italy (2018) and published in dozens of languages around the world.