In Russia, where men from generation to generation died in wars, disappeared in exile and prison, and became drunkards, an all-female family is an ordinary phenomenon, but no less tragic for that. The novel by the young Ural writer Olga Slavnikova is dedicated to the history of the relationship between a mother and daughter living together. Step by step, the narrative introduces us to the “quiet horror” of the everyday coexistence of people who simultaneously love and hate each other. And the point here is not only and not so much in the living conditions that interfere with the arrangement of the personal lives of two women. Thoughts and feelings come into fatal conflict, but this struggle is skillfully disguised by the veil of external decency. And only a close look can see the true state of things. So a pretty harmless dragonfly, under impartial optics, turns into a terrible voracious predator...