Lilianna Lungina is a renowned master of literary translation. Thanks to her, Russian readers learned “The Kid and Carlson” and “Pippi Longstocking” by Astrid Lindgren, novels by Hamsun, Strindberg, Böll, Simenon, Vian, Azhar. As a child, she lived in France, Palestine, Germany, and in the early thirties, as a thirteen-year-old girl, she returned to her homeland, the USSR. The life of this amazing woman deeply expressed the twentieth century. Her fascinating oral novel combines a chronicle of a dramatic era and a confessional story about the life of the soul. M. Tsvetaeva, V. Nekrasov, D. Samoilov, A. Tvardovsky, A. Solzhenitsyn, V. Shalamov, E. Evtushenko, N. Khrushchev, A. Sinyavsky, I. Brodsky, A. Lindgren - these are just a few of the most famous the heroes of her story, distant and close companions of her life, which she agreed to tell in front of the camera in Oleg Dorman’s documentary.