Elena Dolgopyat is a prose writer, screenwriter, and curator of the manuscript collection of the Museum of Cinema. Author of many books, including collections of stories “Alien Life”, “Motherland”, “Russian”. Finalist of the National Bestseller Award - 2017. Yesterday's life becomes a dream. An album with yesterday's photographs is like a herbarium. A face in a photograph evokes the memory of a living person. The past is resurrected. The dream turns into reality. Reading the book “Chronicles of Forgotten Dreams”, you can see living faces behind the words. This is why it was written.