The stories in the book tell about how modern people live, what problems affect them in real life. Of course, in our time people do not stop loving, believing and hoping. Artyom, the hero of the first story, had a strange dream - perhaps he fell into the passionate embrace of an unfamiliar woman, and besides, she said prophetic words: “He who did not love, did not live.” This gives a man a reason to think about his life, whether he lived like this. In the end, he decides to find the answer to this question and goes to another city, where a stranger should live, because in a dream she gave him a phone number... In the second story, two young people meet in the carriage of a passenger train, who, as a result of communication, find common ground and change their lives 180 degrees. “A Fair Trial” will tell the story of how the father of a dishonored girl pronounces a sentence on her rapists. And the hero of the next story turned out to be a victim of his excessive curiosity