Requiem for a Dream was first published in 1978. The book follows the lives of four New Yorkers who, unable to bear the difference between their dreams of an ideal life and the real world, seek solace in illusions. Sarah Goldfarb, who lost her husband, dreams only of being on a TV show and appearing in her favorite red dress. To fit into it, she goes on a diet of pills that alter her consciousness. Sarah's son Harry, his girlfriend Marion and best friend Tyrone are trying to get rich and escape from the life that surrounds them by selling heroin. The guys themselves indulge in drugs. Life seems like a fairy tale to them, and none of the four realizes that they have become dependent on this fairy tale. It gradually becomes clear that the main character of the novel is Dependency, and the book itself is a manifesto of the triumph of addiction over the human spirit. Requiem for all those who, for the sake of illusion, betrayed life and lost the Human in themselves.