The book includes several short stories and the novel “Screen Test”. The series of short stories under the general title “Topaz” describes shocking stories from the lives of several women who, by the will of fate, found themselves in the world of vulgarity. Each of them, despite vile circumstances, continues to search in reality is something of its own, not yet lost irretrievably. And this something can give them hope, without which it is unthinkable to live. The novel “Screen Test” is a story about the all-destructive power of feelings, about “perfect” love that has become a psychological nightmare in reality. The desire to remarry leads Aoyama to a casting of young applicants, where he meets Asami. Since childhood, a girl has been living with a trauma from which she cannot heal, so she cannot help but commit cruel acts...