The portrait of an artist turned detective – This is the real-life story of a painter once focused on still-lifes and oil colors, now hunting for clues and the truth at the heart of a heartless crime. Autobiography, and the first book of the painter and writer Vera Gutkina. The story unravels a web of deceit and lies in a personal quest to reveal an injustice perpetrated on herself and more than 500 other Russian immigrants to Israel; all of them victims of a fraud sanctioned in part by institutions of the state. Armed with her boundless creativity, courage and sense of humor, Vera battles the forces of corruption, leading this struggling to an unpredictable result.