Can you love and still be free? She's a waitress, he's a chef. They used to be friends, but now they're in love and live together in a small apartment. When he asks her to marry him, Hero panics. Because there's one thing she absolutely doesn't want to be: "the wife of." So she gives herself seven days to think it over, during which she ruthlessly questions herself: Who is she, and what does she want? HERO is a story about what it means for women to be supporting characters in a world written by men. How is it possible to be yourself when you're the product of someone else's imagination? An intense, poetic novel about self-determination and love.