With all the differences in the heroines of Lola Elistratova’s novels, it is always about herself. In the voice of Mata Hari, she says: “Without a leash, without support - I am a girl who never became an adult, always unsure of the future and striving to live today as fully as possible, without thinking about the consequences. Eternally in search of herself, every now and then confronted with cruelty itself, searching for the absolute that no man can give...” The novel “Physiological Fantasy” could be called a thriller, if not for an in-depth, historically accurate description of the material. Modern heroes, our neighbors in a Moscow residential area, come into contact with the sinister sexual mysticism of the French 18th century.