The reader unfolds the story of a girl who accepts life as it is, without questions or offense. The circumstances of her childhood taught her to this - no parents (although she is not an orphan), hunger and poverty, and the fact that she has to defend herself alone in the world of children, and this world is just as merciless as the world of adults. However, the fact that no one needs the child gives him, oddly enough, the right to independence. Freedom to live in poverty. Sometimes to death. But always completely independent, even from the authorities. We hope that the reader knows how the life of this girl developed in the future - in the future, a prose writer, playwright, poet, artist, composer and singer, winner of many awards, world-famous writer Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya.