These are stories about children who lived during the war and in the first post-war years, based on the memories of a little girl from 3 to 7 years old. There is no fiction in them. This is only what she herself saw and experienced. This is about how vile creatures suddenly burst into people's lives with all their unconscious cruelty. This is about a child who finds himself abandoned to the mercy of fate in the winter cold in an unfamiliar city. It's about a little boy slowly dying of starvation. It's about a teenager who finds himself unwanted. This is about a girl who dreamed of a doll for a long time. And when she finally got it, she held it in her hands for only about half an hour. This is about the Germans who were evacuated from the Kaliningrad region. They turned out to be surprisingly connected with the fate of this very girl, who, now a woman of advanced years, shares her impressions of those distant times.