About the book: 2019 / Alicia Berenson’s life seems perfect. The famous artist married a sought-after fashion photographer. She lives in one of the most attractive and expensive areas of London, in a luxurious house with large windows overlooking the park. One late evening, when her husband Gabriel returns home from another shoot, Alicia shoots him five times in the face. And she hasn't uttered a word since. Alicia's refusal to speak or give any explanation excites the public imagination. The mystery makes the artist famous. And while she herself is under compulsory treatment, the price of her latest work - a self-portrait with a single inscription in Greek "ALKESTA" - is rapidly growing. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist. He had been waiting a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia, to get her to talk. But what is hidden behind his obsession with the insane husband-killer and what will all these psychological experiments lead to? Perhaps to a truth that threatens to consume him too…