Everyone knows that London is the capital of Great Britain. Millions of tourists travel to the banks of the Thames every year. Returning home, they enthusiastically talk about luxury shops, museums, numerous parks, and finally Buckingham Palace! However, behind the facade of all this splendor, ordinary, unremarkable life flows - the same as in any other city in the world (it’s not for nothing that London is located on the same parallel with Voronezh). Children get ready for school in the morning, parents get ready for work, but everyone’s work is different. Joanie Brewer, the heroine of the novel, is a prostitute, despite the fact that she has three children. However, she is a wonderful mother - it happens! — for whom family well-being is above all. All of Joanie's children are from different fathers, but this does not change anything in their relationship. The elders touchingly take care of the youngest - eleven-year-old Kira, a beautiful blond girl with amazingly clear blue eyes. Kira was a home child, but it was with her that the misfortune happened. One fine summer day the girl disappeared. The whole district was looking for her, but - alas... Kira's seventeen-year-old brother, dark-skinned John-John, vowed to find his sister, alive or dead.