About the book: 2022 / Copenhagen, mid-1920s. Artists Greta and Einar Wegener have been married for six years. Greta paints portraits of celebrities, and Einar paints miniature landscapes. One day, Greta asks her husband to sit for her portrait of an opera singer and gives him a pair of women's shoes. From this moment begins the story of Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender women to make the transition..