Abstract
The review is devoted to a book by writer Markéta Pilátová. The book in seven chapters tells a story from the end of the 2nd World War, situated in the Jeseníky Mountains and taking place on the border between dream and reality.
In the forest in the spring of 1945, a Jewish and German girl meets a Czech boy (none of them has parents) and a young Russian deserter from the Red Army. Children get into trouble when they accidentally clash with German soldiers.
But there is a mythical figure - Grandma Bedla, a mysterious being, half woman, half mushroom, and he comes to their aid. Children and deserters get acquainted with other, for them no longer commonplace, mushrooms and connect with their mycelium.
They learn the meaning and power of friendship and togetherness, embodied in the story as networks in the mycelium.