Silent patient

The life of Alicia Berenson seems perfect. The famous artist married a demanded fashion photographer. She lives in one of the most attractive and expensive areas of London in a luxurious house with large windows overlooking the park. Once in the late evening, when her husband Gabriel returns home from the next shoot, Alicia shoots his face five times. And since then he has not pronounced a word.
Alicia"s refusal to speak or give any explanation excites public imagination. The secret makes the artist famous. And while it herself is on compulsory treatment, the price of her last work - a self -portrait with the only inscription in Greek "Alkeste" - is growing rapidly.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist. He had been waiting for the opportunity to work with Alicia for a long time, to force her to speak. But what is hidden behind his obsession with a crazy husband, and what will all these psychological experiments lead to? Perhaps to the truth that threatens to absorb himself ...
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