"V tcentre povestvovaniia etoi, podchas shokiruiushchei, rezkoi i bolevoi knigi Zhenshchina. Geroinia, v iunosti parashiutistka i pilot vozdushnogo shara, perezhiv lichnuiu tragediiu, vynuzhdena zaniatsia sovsem inym delom v drugoi strane, mozhno skazat, v zazerkale: ona kosmetolog, zhivet i rabotaet v Niu-Iorke. Tcelaia verenitca strannykh personazhei prokhodit pered ee glazami, ibo po rodu svoei nyneshnei professii geroinia stalkivaetsia s fantasticheskimi, na segodniashnii den pochti obydennymi "gendernymi perevertyshami", s obeskurazhivaiushchimi, a to i ottalkivaiushchimi kartinkami zhizni obshchestva. I, kak ni stranno, iz etoi girliandy, po vyrazheniiu geroini, "kalek" vyrastaet groteskovyi, tragicheskii, nichtozhnyi i vysokii obraz sovremennoi liubvi."-- amazon.com

The heroine, in her youth, was a paratrooper and a balloon pilot. After experiencing a personal tragedy, she is forced to do something completely different in another country: she is a cosmetologist, and lives and works in New York and finds new challenges and thrills.