I don’t know where he appears from or where he disappears to. I don’t know what his face looks like—he walks around in a mask of some disgusting monster. I only know this: my life—my own life, the life of young rich widow Lilia Davydova—has turned into a real hell. I don’t have many choices: either prison, or complete dependence on this creature. It seems he doesn’t even need the money he extorts from me. He needs absolute power over his victim. Well then, he’ll get a obedient slave, a voiceless toy—and then, finally, he will take off his mask…