This is an outspoken girl's diary, the chastity and insecurity of which is all the more acute as written by a young Korean woman, a man not so mysterious as, rather, naive to the average European culture. And "dialogue of cultures" (including "conflict of interpretations") becomes for Denisenko a very unexpected tool for modern Ukrainian literature to embody traditionally "eternal" themes for art: faith in the ability to live, die and love "WITHOUT MASKS". The heroes of the novel do this: they live unrestrainedly, passionately love and… It often happens that someone else's life seems to us much brighter and more interesting than your own. That's why Mae Kim, a Korean language teacher and a native of Seoul, began to follow the mysterious European language, the secret of which she decided to find out at any cost. Mae Kim did not even guess that this mysterious European is a Ukrainian Nellie, who long ago surrendered to the will of circumstances and lost her true self. Will Mae find answers to her questions? Will Nellie find herself? What will await them in the interesting, heterogeneous city of Seoul? And the main question: will the hearth accept their masks? After all, the inscription on the traditional Korean mask says: “And the holy dance began, where each mask had its own role. Then the masks were burned, and people believed that all misfortunes disappeared with the smoke. "
