"Silent patient", Michaelides A.

The life of Alicia Berenson seems perfect. The famous artist married a popular fashion photographer. She lives in one of the most attractive and expensive areas of London in a luxurious house with large windows going to 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 does not say a word. The refusal of Alicia to speak or give any explanations excites public imagination. The secret makes the artist famous. And while it itself 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. For a long time he was waiting for the opportunity to work with Alicia, 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...