Christine has been in love with Rick almost since childhood. But he had no idea about this and, being older, avoided her sometimes annoying childish attention. When, years later, Rick himself began to show a love interest to the matured Christine, she did not believe in the sincerity of his feelings. Gradually, the ice of her mistrust began to melt, but her lover resorted to a trick to hasten the development of their relationship... Is this acceptable? And what gives a person a chance to correct mistakes and overcome grievances?.. This novel is about the inscrutable ways of love, about the life lessons that it teaches to lovers, about vulnerability and at the same time the irresistible power of true feeling.