The Virgin Mary was 14 years old at the time of the Immaculate Conception. What would happen if a modern girl of that age came to school one day and announced that she was pregnant with the Messiah? With a high probability, she will be thrown out, calling her a dirty slut, the child will be taken away and she will be put in a madhouse - and this is despite our by no means biblical morals. This paradox has long bothered Stella Duffy, and, using her imagination, she wrote a parable about the modern virgin Sophia... Sophia can hardly be called immaculate. She is a dancer. Sofia has always danced - in childhood, in her youth, she still dances now - in a night strip club. Her job is to arouse lust in men. Or is it still love? Sofia didn’t think about this. Until one day, after a night of dancing and drinking, she had a visitor. The guest was unusual - his name was Gabriel, he sat on the bed without touching the sheets, and his body shimmered slightly blue in the dusk of the night. The proposal he made to Sophia turned out to be even more unusual: to become the mother of the new Messiah... “The Perfect Choice” is another bitter and provocative parable from the English storyteller Stella Duffy, imbued with irony and compassion.