The two-faced are trapped in circumstances they perceive as happening only to them. Often, these are people at a stage in life when they seriously contemplate that the time has come to sort out their existence. This causes them additional and unconscious distress, manifesting in various forms, such as childish infatuation with a potential partner, neurotic nurturing of younger lovers, seeking their place in the hierarchy of drinking buddies, torn between pleasing both family and authoritarian bosses, and so on. In a way, they invent survival strategies, either through self-convincing, diving into turmoil, revisiting the space of past trauma, but mainly by unconsciously shifting responsibility for their own actions and feelings onto others. The two-faced are unaware that sometimes, to achieve adulthood and inner peace, one must also give up something, accept the mistakes and imperfections of others, and above all, acknowledge their own.

The stories skillfully and wittily depict complex psychological states, placed in just one moment from everyday life, from which, however, thanks to significant details, we can still gain a comprehensive picture of the lives of the protagonists up to their childhood years. Jedrt Maležič is uncompromising with her literary characters. She doesn’t forgive them, she doesn’t stroke them in the direction of the fur, she doesn’t empathize. They must find their way themselves, because only then will they mature. Without crutches, without syrupy pity.