About the book
Maryam Hassouni rises to fame at only fifteen and ends up being the first Dutch actress to win an Emmy. Over the years she plays a wide range of characters. She enjoys her work, but is often surprised to find the same clichéd stories being told over and over again – stories she can’t relate to at all. Slowly it dawns on Maryam that for her, the movie industry has become synonymous with destruction and misery. Even though she wants to be an actor, she finds it becomes impossible for her to continue. She goes to college and decides to start writing her own stories. When she is offered a major part in a TV show and decides, against her better judgment, to go for it, things go badly wrong. It’s not until years later, when she reads the case file detailing her allegations and the resulting investigation and is confronted with the lies and twisted facts, that she knows for sure: ‘It’s not me who’s sick—the system is sick.’