In this small book, like in her other novels, the main theme is women: their feelings, thoughts, and actions. A girl who escaped from kidnappers after an eight-year captivity wandering through the capital streets, meeting different people and weaving their fates into hers. A capricious daughter of an oligarch who broke free from her mother’s control, a mother who hid her origins and therefore lived very modestly. A successful rich owner of a clinic who looks after her young lover-jigolo. A famous actress trying to save her former husband—a director who is going mad. What do all these characters have in common? And why “oysters”?