“You can’t experience love. Only airplanes can be tested. They are made of iron." This undeniable truth - a quote from the new story "Spite", which became the title story for the collection - sets the emotional tone for the entire book. You cannot experience... what? Not only love. But also decency. Patience. Loyalty. Trust. Simple truths that the heroes and heroines of Victoria Tokareva comprehend again - from their own, often very bitter, experience. And we believe them - because we recognize ourselves in them... The collection also includes another new story, “Why?” and works already loved by readers.