The Plan       painting

"You have an air of someone much too self-confident and that discourages the clients." Said Roberto.

"Fuck off" Said Veruscka.

Self-confident? Perhaps. She definitely had a plan: to be a prostitute for one more year, then she’d open up a restaurant in St. Petersburg, where her mother and paraplegic brother Fjodor lived. But she fell ill and died, at San Camillo Hospital, in Rome.

Roberto replaced her with another one from the East. A prissy one, who seemed like she was fresh from a monastery.