The lives and fates of Angéla Graff and Eszter Encsy are as closely related as day and night - and they are just as opposite to each other. They spend their childhood years together in a gloomy age, the darkness of which Angéla knows nothing about, and which forever paints Eszter's soul black. Angéla smiles with carefree reverence into the morning light, while her disintegrating family flees the ruins of their lives, and Eszter sobs with helpless envy that she cannot see this innocent angel suffer.
Years later, they meet again, the bond between them is a man - husband and lover. Eszter is a celebrated actress, yet she is unhappy: the demonic hatred burning in her soul slowly destroys everything that could make her happy. Angéla is an eternal child, she has no idea about the murderous passions and consuming passions working around her. He has no idea that the people he loves the most are cheating behind his back, preparing to turn his life upside down.
The Roe is a brutal story of a love triangle and a life-long, implacable revenge. MAGDA SZABÓ's captivating, merciless novel made its author famous and well-known in one fell swoop: it was translated into more than twenty languages, and has not lost its elemental power to this day.