The Silent Patient

Alicia Berenson’s life seems perfect. The famous artist is married to a sought-after fashion photographer. She lives in one of the most attractive and expensive areas of London, in a luxurious house with large windows overlooking the park. One late evening, when her husband Gabriel returns home from another shoot, Alicia shoots him in the face five times. And since then, she has not said a word.
.Alicia's refusal to speak or provide any explanations stirs public imagination. The mystery makes the artist famous. And while she is undergoing involuntary treatment, the price of her latest work - a self-portrait with the only inscription in Greek "Alcestis" - is rapidly increasing.
.Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist. He has long waited for the opportunity to work with Alicia, to make her talk. But what lies behind his obsession with the madman who killed her husband, and where will all these psychological experiments lead? Perhaps to a truth that threatens to engulf him as well...