About the book: 2021 / Russian student Maria Butina was arrested in Washington in July 2018 on charges of working as a foreign agent in the United States without registration. A year and a half in prison, four months of solitary confinement and torture, more than 50 hours of interrogation in a concrete bunker, 1,200 pages of encrypted prison diary entries, which were taken to Russia after liberation. Media all over the world wrote about this story, but no one was able to answer the question of who Maria Butina really is - a criminal or a victim? In her autobiographical book, Maria finally told the whole truth. Here is absolutely unique material - a restored prison diary and the most incredible story of a Russian prisoner in the USA, written by her herself. How to survive in the extreme conditions of prison, and even while being in a foreign country? What saved Maria in solitary confinement? How did she see US prisoners and how did she manage to gain their trust and even gain support? And finally, who really is Maria Butina?