Bella - nachinayushchaya pisatel'nitsa, no vse ee popytki sozdat' genial'noe proizvedenie zakanchivayutsya neudachami. Otchayavshis' v sobstvennykh silakh, Bella pribegaet k postoronney pomoshchi, o chem vposledstvii zhaleet. Zhizn' devushki kardinal'no menyaetsya. Gran' mezhdu vymyslom i real'nost'yu ischezaet. Sud'ba devushki nachinaet zaviset' ot syuzheta romana, a ee kharakter dopolnyaetsya novymi chertami, ravnodushnymi i zhestokimi. K tomu zhe pisatel'nitsa zamechaet, chto pristrastilas' k alkogolyu, i zhazhda spirtnogo kazhdyy den' golodnym zverem nabrasyvaetsya na nee. Bella boretsya...