Svetlana, Ivana, Olivia, Lara and Veronika are five women stranded in a life they hate, five women whose personalities and circumstances couldn't be more different, and who nevertheless share the same trait: they all perceive their respective mothers as one figure of almost mythical proportions that paralyzes them and condemns them to an eternal childhood. Their stories seem to complement each other, intertwine, contradict each other. Skilfully making use of the internal monologue and
Without renouncing at any time a raw, ironic and compassionate look, Ivana Dobrakovová focuses on the family, sentimental or sexual relationships of the protagonists, relationships governed by rules and dynamics that they feel are disconcerting, oppressive or threatening, pushing them to seek some kind of desperate escape or launch a secret rebellion.

Set in the streets of Bratislava and Turin, the five stories that make up Mothers and Truckers, a work awarded with the European Union Prize for Literature in 2019, make up an absorbing and polyphonic narrative about the different wounds and traumas that its characters carry, some Troubled women looking for their particular survival strategies in a macho and inhospitable world, and whose surprising stories –which oscillate between horror and tenderness, humor and strangeness– reveal Dobrakovová as a skilled speleologist of the female inner world.