Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention….
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Antisemitism & Nazism mentioned
- Rape & sexual assault
- Child pornography, paedophilia & grooming mentioned
- Disordered eating & body dysmorphia
- Self-harm
- Alcohol consumption & drug abuse (on-page)
- Murder
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