A thirty-year-old woman devotes herself to exchanging letters with a complete stranger. Over the course of six months of an increasingly tense relationship, she recounts to her pen pal the deterioration of her marriage, its gray hues and its fractured boundaries. From her series of confessions emerges the image of modern marriage - entangled in the maze of contemporary politics, doomed to a constant struggle in which power never remains in one place.

In her first book, Michal Zorn does an amazing job of describing the unique connections between the three protagonists. She looks at them through two lenses: inwardly, into the emotional tangle they find themselves in, and outwardly, into the processes of building new possibilities for closeness. This is a love story told with modern sensitivity, this is a story about friendship between women as a formative event, this is a mature and sober story about rebellious and wild youth, this is another story about ordinary things.