Maybe everything would have been different if I recognized it immediately and realized that I had to escape.

I didn't dare to look there, I didn't dare to make sure.

My remaining time will be counted in days, maybe only in hours.

Oksanen has once again written a novel that is shocking and rivaling the tension of a thriller about women's fates, the relationship between women's bodies and power, and women's perspectives in an age and place where corruption pervades everything. On the border between East and West, at the time of Ukraine's independence, in the 2000s, young girls are trying to get by: they work in the infertility industry as donors and surrogates, hoping that one day they might be able to make free decisions about their lives...