Darya Rasheeva

The action is set at the start of the twentieth century, between a village by the River Dnyepr and the coast of Florida. While the story has ironic, romantic and sometimes mystic angles, the bitter aspects of emigration from Ukraine to the United States become clearly visible.

A young woman named Jessica is involved in a car accident on the eve of her wedding. Her face is disfigured. To earn money for plastic surgery, she takes a job as a stripper in a nightclub cabaret, hiding her face behind a mask.