What do you do when monstrous images of the dead—and never-lived—invade reality? What if the school is run by “star women” who carry out bloody executions of students? Where can you find salvation from a father who can hire some school hooligan for invented justice?
There is a way out. You only have to meticulously write the oncoming horrors into a red notebook called “Ethalsion,” hoping that in this way you can expel them. The main thing is to keep looking straight ahead, no matter what happens.
And that’s exactly what happens to Eva Abissov. Her life is complicated and tangled. Even her own name poisons the blood in her. But not everything boils down to her father’s psychoses and hallucinations. The troubles of Eva are caused by a sinister force, and a loving mother is the embodiment of that force—the most merciless creature in the world.