Oil painting

Today, Irma is an ordinary mother of two children, exhausted by life. And once she was one of the first beauties of her town. While still a schoolgirl, I saw an album with photos of Jurmala brought by a classmate. Since then, she began to rave about this city, even got the nickname - Irmala. As an adult, Irma decides to make a fortune with her own beauty, because she has no other capital. She becomes the mistress of rich men. But on the threshold of the thirtieth anniversary, he suddenly begins to realize that he risks remaining completely alone, and thinks about marriage. Of the potential husbands, only Vadim turned out to be close - an ordinary guy, her long-time admirer, whom she, however, never loved. But family life with Vadim is not going well. One day, wandering with the children in the newly opened shopping center, Irma meets a strange young man who called her the long-forgotten nickname of Irmal ... 'Oil Painting' is a modern novel by Oksana Kalina about the impossibility of starting a different, 'correct' life, about the inner feelings of a woman who is forced to live with the unloved.