About the book: 1997 / “The whole world is a stage, and the people in it are actors,” said the great Shakespeare, the favorite playwright of one of the heroines. On the stage of this theater In the novel, a first-class Swiss plastic surgery clinic becomes available: the first act of the life drama of the two main characters is played out there, here they meet and for the first time put on masks that will only be torn from them by a fatal turn of events. Young, lovely and brave Kim West saves a desperate suicide. He saves in order to part with her forever... But is it forever? They are somehow strangely similar, although the one who was saved is the leader, the leader, for the rest of her life, and the savior is the follower; however, both of them are self-made women - women who have made themselves, who have reached the highest spheres of public life, and they both have an unaccountable kindness of soul. The heroines go through life along different paths, both in love and in business, and are guided by different criteria of happiness and success. But an unexpected tragic incident brings them together again in the most fabulous way before fate gives them another chance to find personal happiness, and they change the roles of Victim and Retribution on the stage of the theater of life…