If the whole world is a theater, then ballet theater is a whole world, with its own intrigues and problems, tragedies and passions, heroes and villains, beauties and monsters. Liza, who is far from ballet and lives in Turkey, finds herself in this world completely by accident - and does not assume that there she will have to take part in the investigation of a mysterious murder and meet love... or is it not love at all, but only an appearance, like everything in the illusory world theater? This novel is not only about a murder investigation - it is about music and ballet, about the Turkish city of Izmir and our compatriots living in it, about people devoted to the theater and ready to do anything for the sake of art... even crime.