Ariadne's Thread

11 hrs. 11 min.

Language Russian

Author Natalia Andreeva

Narrator Irina Borovikova

Description

Ariadna’s life looks cloudless and happy on the outside! She doesn’t need to do anything to live comfortably: her mother—a famous writer—has already taken care of everything. It’s a pity, though, that these two extraordinary women don’t want to understand each other. Ariadna can’t stand the young lover of her mother, the handsome Yegor, considering him a gigolo; while Marina Minina can’t bear her son-in-law, declaring that the daughter could have made a brilliant match instead of bringing a poor provincial to the house. Each of them thinks: “I have love, and hers is certainly a mistake.” It all ends tragically—the writer is found hanging.
The “suicide” version could have satisfied everyone if, a month earlier, under rather vague circumstances, Yegor Varlamov hadn’t died—the man for whom the star had been preparing to marry. And then Ariadna discovers that someone is watching her. Who is he—her stalker? Husband? Father? Her best friend? In an instant, close people become strangers. She is alone against everyone. Or… against herself.