The Italian writer Elena Ferrante, whose identity is unknown, tells the story of a woman's hell in her novel. The unsuspecting thirty-eight-year-old Olga is abandoned by her husband one day after lunch, with dignity and reason, citing confusion, fatigue, and dissatisfaction. But the reason is a younger woman. Olga collapses emotionally after the breakup. Nothing new, but Olga's first-person narrative is painfully honest, without sentimentality or tears, but full of rage and agony. At the center is the figure of a woman who is shaped, distorted, and thrown into an abyss of despair by society. But she must climb out of the abyss herself.