In the novel “Cardboard Walls” we meet again with former investigator Varvara Samovarova, who, armed not only with the usual techniques of her profession, but with intuition and even dreams, privately solves a puzzling problem: she is looking for a young woman, wife and mother, who has disappeared without a trace, about whose life, as it turns out, her husband and even her close friend know little. Polina Elizarova opens up to us in a new way the world of rich mansions and high fences. It turns out to be not at all vulgar and artificial; it is inhabited by real people with their likes and phobias, fears and mental pain. For Samovarova, this experience becomes another test that disrupts the fragile harmony of her personal life. Alcoholism, selfishness, loneliness, manipulation of the feelings of others - these very real demons, so familiar to many, have to be faced by former investigator Varvara Sergeevna Samovarova, who herself is going through difficult times. The novel vividly and emotionally depicts the story of a long-standing passion that burns out everything around it. Could such a passion lead to a crime? Or is everything much simpler, and the disappeared woman is a woman with a shattered psyche who belongs in a mental hospital?.. All this is in Polina Elizarova’s new psychological thriller “Cardboard Walls.”