The Last Mask

The story of Isidora Westland, a painter of the 21st century describes what happens when human passion, talent and faith are all mixed together into one. She is a woman who inadvertently discovers that some gifts are double-edged. Her paintings lead her to suffer a fateful blow that nearly destroys her and imprisons her mind forever. The lack of motherly love, the loss of her father and the painful truth she keeps to herself to preserve happiness with her older brother Aleksa. Where quietude kills, masks preserve a wounded soul, courage wanes, and fear conquers all. After a long period of struggle in a mental institution, Isidora Westland paints "The Lady with The Mask", not knowing that by doing so she would open the door to her subconscious and start the hardest chapter of her life. The novel titled The Last Mask will help many readers to get to know oneself better, to accept one’s own flaws and virtues, to open the locked doors of one’s subconscious and learn to love and accept that inner being that is individual to each of us, our own individual gift! Once we take off The Last Mask, we realize that life has no purpose if we cease to be who we truly are. It is a dramatic piece of work that incites one to fight for one’s own survival and to learn that each cloud has a silver lining. Is there anything more magical than a written word, anything more powerful than a fictional character’s destiny as a sort of comfort? We deploy those last atoms of strength just to find our place in the sun. The Last Mask is a true friend at moments such as those. It has a soul, emotion, hope and faith. It has the power to teach us to never give up!