For some reason, it is generally accepted that Don Juanism is the lot of men alone. Seduce and achieve, achieve - cool down and hear how the worm of satiety digs its way inside. To leave, destroy someone else's life and not be responsible for anything, because love knows neither laws nor morals. Galina Shcherbakova's Don Juans are women. It is they who hunt for men, go out to “graze in the meadows,” running away from the once and for all prescribed order of life. Especially in Russia, especially during the early period of perestroika. It is they who are exchanging apartments and upending the idea of the primacy of youth in amorous affairs. But what is behind this “freedom”? Rape in adolescence, the damage to communal living with sick old parents, whom no hospital will accept, the inability to defeat the System, which is even ready to send a disabled son to the army... Freedom turns into revenge for an unhappy past, but the past cannot be changed. And the price of peace is only forgiveness. The new collection of prose by Galina Shcherbakova includes two novels - “In Search of the Ultimate Man” (previously published under the title “Army of Lovers”) and “At the Feet of Lying Women.”