About the book: 2014 / The light aroma of perfume is all that Bertha remembers about her mother. Deceived in her feelings, she committed suicide many years ago. Too bright. Too talented. Too determined. This is what relatives said about Bertha’s mother. The girl believed them, but even more she believed in herself - in her success and her victories. Cold, calculating, cynical, Bertha, at the peak of her career, loses everything. And then he appears in her life - a man whom her mother once loved too much…