Mika Goodwick was only seven when she started suffering from sleep paralysis. It was very unlucky for her, since sleep paralysis is very uncommon in young children. Her parents felt almost as affected as she did. They thought that maybe it was an ungodly balance to kidnap them of an otherwise perfect child. First it was the staying awake until stupid hours, then came the recurring nightmares. The 'Can I sleep in your bed with you?' after waking up in cold sweats. They knew she couldn't share a bed with mommy and daddy forever, no matter how much she wanted to. No matter how much she needed to.

"Anna Karenina" is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for her by others.