Each novel by Anna Michalska is a study of the many-sided Love in one of its guises. The intense, painfully acute experience of the loss of love embodied in the Word, the collapse of not only personal destiny, but also the entire world of Russian culture, values, human relationships, swept away by the whirlwinds of the 90s - this is the test that befell the heroine. Not a test - a challenge! The plot of the novel is tense and paradoxical, but its unpredictable turns suddenly turn out to be completely natural, strange accidents turn into omens of... death or salvation? Is it possible to play with fate and raise the bet? Not just to survive, but to preserve and convey what may cost one’s life? Innovative in form, this work reproduces the structure of an ancient text, seething with ancient Greek passions, where the prose of life unexpectedly soars into the high sky of poetry.