Alicia urgently needed money to afford to pay for her training sessions, cinemas and, above all, all the extravagant finery. She did not want to shop in those well-groomed malls in Prague, like all the girls in the class, because then she would have the same rags as they did… Or, for God's sake, the Vietnamese would drop to the deepest level! She liked originality and luxury, ordered a lot of things directly from abroad and otherwise also often and she liked to go to some boutique. This just cost her a few thousand a month, she danced, and her parents' pocket wasn't bottomless.