Publisher's Synopsis
The book opens with a young woman's train trip to a French village. The guest house where Lana the lead character will be staying for ten days, includes the three main female characters of the story. The main purpose of Lana's visit is to rest for a while after the difficult one year and a half she had. And second is to do some freelance photography work for the guest house owner.
During her stay, Lana will engage with the ladies on themes about life, sexual harassment, work pressure and other socio-cultural issues.
How interesting Lana's journey might seem, it's not the heart of the book's mystery. It becomes rapidly clear that Lana herself is mentally unstable, living between two parallel worlds.
While this is hidden from the reader, it is still clear to discover it through Lana's sleep fainting. While the narrator tells Lana's adventure in the guest house, Lana wakes up one day to find herself in a mental institution. At that moment the narrator brings back Lana to real life and makes her face the fact that she is a schizophrenic, abusing hallucinogenic drugs as a way of refusing acknowledgement of her mental condition.
At the end, Lana fakes her will to go on with the doctor treating methods and plays it cool with her supervising nurse. Howbeit, the book closes with her sitting in the institution garden going back to her imaginary world after stealing pills from the doctor office and swallowing them secretly.
