Willy Delaye, the heroine of the novel “Illusions,” is a strong and independent woman, a famous lawyer, the head of a thriving law firm. The only purpose of her life is to protect women from the despotism of men and from the poverty to which unjust divorce doomed women and their children. A habit was born: to see every woman as a victim, and every man as an aggressor and destroyer. She had her own reasons for this... If she had allowed herself to love, then perhaps she would have been saved from the blind anger that played a cruel joke on her...