Lenora Vulvokov

* 1991
* 1982
* 1968

**Lenora Vulvokov** was a supporting character who is mentioned frequently in season one and an indirect main character in season two. She was Nadia's mother and is portrayed by Chloë Sevigny.

## Personality

Lenora was eccentric and it was hinted that a mental disorder caused her frequent volatility and frustration. It's implied that Lenora was dependent on drugs, having marks on her arms from excessive heroin use. It seems that she did care for Nadia in her own way, but was susceptible to traumatizing her nevertheless.

## Biography

### Early Life

Lenora Vulvokov was born in the late 1950s-early 1960s, the child of two Jewish Hungarian Holocaust survivors. According to her mother, Lenora only spoke Hungarian until she was four. Before 1968, Lenora's father passed away. It's unknown how this affected her but she was left with a single mother.

Lenora, aged 10-12, learns the choreography to the Tarantella. Her daughter, Nadia, is in her grandmother's body and tells Lenora that in the future, she is going to steal the family fortune, which confuses her. Being a child, she doesn't give it much thought before she returns to her dance routine, inviting her mom to dance with her. As Lenora grows older, she begins to fall out with her mother, often saying she had "half a mind to become a Catholic, just to piss her off." Lenora befriends Ruth at some point and they remain friends until her death.

### 1981

In the summer of 1981, Lenora gets pregnant with Nadia. Not much is known about the father, except that he was of Russian heritage and an alcoholic, as mentioned by Nadia.

### 1982

Nadia is unknowingly transported into her mother's body after taking the subway. She ends up in 1982 and finds a card in her mother’s coat pocket inviting her to a bar called The Black Gumball. Nadia, still unaware that she’s in her mother’s body, enters. Shortly after, she flees with Chez, Lenora's boyfriend, who conned an employee out of money. She is given drugs and winds up inadvertently stealing her family’s fortune. She and Chez return to Lenora’s apartment, where it’s revealed to Nadia that she was in her mother’s body all along. Frightened, Nadia runs from the apartment and back to the subway, returning to 2022. When she goes to 1982 again, she catches Chez fleeing with the bag containing her family’s Krugerrands. Nadia gives chase but isn’t able to catch him. She begins trying to track down Chez and get her family’s fortune back. She tracks Chez down to a gym that he frequents and it’s revealed that he had given the fortune back to Lenora. She was unaware of the exchange because she wasn’t in her mother’s body. She then tries to find the fortune and return it, finding that her mother had bought a luxury car and several fur coats with the money she had gotten from pawning the bullions. She gets the Krugerrands back, in exchange for Ruth giving up the wedding ring her late husband gave her. However, the bullions are lost on the subway.

In the episode Brain Drain, Nadia begins to hallucinate her mother accompanying her trying to find the location of the missing Krugerrands, due to Lenora and Nadia sharing a body and the heavy drug use Lenora took part in. Nadia finds information but is committed: she realizes that not only is she in her mother’s body but they also share a brain. Nadia is able to escape and return to 2022.

[. . .]

Lenora is seen cutting watermelon slices at Ruth's house. Ruth asks Nadia what food she wants as she states that she can't live on watermelon. Nadia states none after being looked at by her mother.

[. . .]

Lenora is in another room, smashing and breaking items, despite Nadia being near, (and it being Ruth's house). Ruth shouts at her telling her that she always fucks it up for her daughter. Lenora comes out and looks at Nadia before re-entering. Lenora later destroys all the mirrors.

[. . .]

After a while, social services arrive and question Nadia. Nadia was told by her mother to say that she wanted to live with her mother to them and Nadia did. However, they couldn't let Lenora take care of a child due to her mental state. Lenora lost custody and it is implied she killed herself due to this, not reaching her 36th birthday.

### Present

Nadia has to deal with the aftermath of her mother's affect on her life, tackling her fears and accepting and living the pain she received as a child as she relives her 36th birthday.

## Relationships

### Family

* Nadia Vulvokov (Daughter)
* Vera Peschauer (Mother)

### Romantic

* Chez (Boyfriend)
* Nadia's father (Relationship unknown)

### Friends

* Ruth Brenner (Best friend)
* Salim (Friendly)