What is it like to yearn in vain for the affection of someone close to you?
A novel about the desire for a parent's love and the determination to achieve it, whatever the cost. Twenty-three-year-old Simona, whom everyone calls Símka, lives with her mother in her grandmother's house. All she wants is to live the life of an ordinary young woman - to experience her first serious love and dream of the future. Instead, he must patiently endure his mother's changing moods and physical punishments. Still, she is convinced she would do anything for her. One day, however, a moment comes that shakes up Simcha's whole life. The moment when it becomes clear whether it is really worth sacrificing everything for a person from whom he will probably never receive love...
