A cornice is a narrow space along which it is difficult and scary to walk while maintaining balance. The cornice is a dangerous boundary between the inside and the outside, one's own and another's, her loneliness and his. And there are two people balancing on this cornice - Iya and Daddy. Their relationship is complex, somewhat painful. After all, it is not easy to be the mistress of a freedom-loving, absurd, hysterical person. You can argue about this novel, accept it or hate it, because with a surgical scalpel it opens monstrous, painful abscesses, which are often decently draped under clothes, but it will not leave anyone indifferent.