This novel was written as an apology to all those who are forced to live, invisible, in this society and this world, convinced since childhood that they do not deserve love, dignity, and, above all, freedom. This novel was written out of a desire for all of us to stop, while we still can, being hostages of our own kinds of locked-in syndrome. At the same time, this novel is the deepest possible apology to all those who were forced to live in Croatia during the adoption of the Istanbul Convention, and especially to those who have systematically suffered violence. This novel was written out of love.