Maria Christina Palma has an apparently perfect life: she is beautiful, wealthy, famous, the world revolves around her.

Until one day, she receives a video on her mobile phone that changes everything. In her past, there is a secret she has never confronted.

Niccolò Ammaniti dissects the mind of a woman, exploring her fears, obsessions, and unspoken desires, in a novel that combines daring imagination, psychological realism, a sense of the tragic, and the charm of the paradox.