The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera

Tomas, a sexually liberal Prague surgeon finds himself in love with and married to Tereza. Tereza is fleeing the influence of her mother and seeks the comfort and security of marriage to Tomas. Sabina is a long-term lover of Tomas, and seeks through her violent unions with Tomas a way to rebel against the influence of her father.

Concerning the schism between love and freedom, The Unbearable Lightness of Being looks at the opposition of weight and lightness as a metaphor to ask whether it is better to be weighed down by responsibility or to chose the ‘unbearable lightness of being’ where our actions are "as free as they are inconsequential"?