My all-time favorite story is Cinderella and the Prince. The modern Cinderella is the St. Petersburg translator Masha, a big city loner, a liar and a chatterbox. Don’t think that Masha is a pithecanthropus; her age can be determined not only by her bones, but also by her passport—she is thirty-seven years old. The modern prince is a successful producer, perhaps even a media mogul, and he is also very handsome. Their love is strange - love-intrigue, love-deception, love-shifter. Who really is Cinderella the translator - a skilled seductress or a pathetic disheveled woman, the owner of a million-dollar collection or a poor idealist, a famous writer or an unfortunate fool? And who is the prince-producer - the master of life or a notorious loser?..