This book is a modern day Cinderella story. Unlike the fairytale Cinderella, Agnes' heroine does not wait for the good fairy to change her fate.

Iris has a talent as a designer, but her parents forced her to choose a different profession. A boring job in a bank and an indifferent husband. this is his whole life, which flows monotonously in a provincial town. At the age of thirty-one, Iris decides to realize her old dream, goes to Paris to discover the world of fashion and become a designer. He finds himself in a strange studio run by the mysterious and influential beauty Martha. Events take an unexpected and exciting course.

This novel is a portrait of a woman searching for her identity. The reader goes along with the heroine on the path of self-determination leading to happiness, from which it is impossible to deviate.