“Light applause, a few words about her, it’s okay, it’s useful, open your mouths and take a sedative like vitamins. No. They won't find it sweet. She will clench into a fist. A step forward on the stage, the words curled into a ball, she opens her mouth - and the hall explodes with blood.” A child born and lost, a rose in cellophane, a girl in a wheelchair, the mysterious obsession of an absurd stranger, amazing cities where there is no one to live, bayaderes whom no one saw, the crash, the quiet madness and the cry of despair - life, no matter what. The famous Canadian writer, Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood turns souls inside out, breaks and rebuilds lives, plunges into dust and recreates fears and passions.