When she was arrested, she had just become pregnant. The doctor in prison said that he would help get rid of the child: “You’re political - they’ll give you at least eight years. When the child turns two years old, they will take it away. What will it be like for him in orphanages?” The mother just laughed in response. After years full of hardship, sorrow and confusion, she once again saved her daughter from death. Apparently, nobility, tempered in trials, turns a person into an angel. Guardian Angel. The stories included in the book “The Prayed Child” were written in different years. The reader will move through the book as if on a time scale: from the mid-twentieth century to the year 2017. This chronicle of changes, given in faces and destinies, is laconic, precise and poetic.