Part 2, Chapters 13-17 Summary

During lovemaking, Tereza lets out primal screams. She falls asleep clutching onto Tomas's hand, just as she clutched her own as a child dreaming of the day that she would meet her future love.

Tereza tries to adjust to her new life in Prague. While she has much more life experience and is better read than many of the college students in Prague, she feels that she is a fraud and waits to be found out. Tereza feels Tomas is her only link to this life, and she is terrified to lose it. Tereza becomes bored with her job at the weekly and looks to do more than work in the darkroom, where Sabina has gotten her work. She wants to take pictures, and Sabina helps facilitate that dream. Tereza becomes successful as a photographer, and gets some pictures...