The book contains stories, short stories and miniatures. The story “And Life Goes On” tells about a young doctor Varvara, whose personal life did not work out, she left her husband, took up scientific work in the field of hematology and meets her first love. The time of action is the present. The story “Mother's Daughter” covers a twenty-year period of time. The main character Nina, an anesthesiologist with a difficult fate, devotes her life to her daughter. She tries to find her happiness with the man she loved and with whom she worked together, goes to Norway to join him, but due to family circumstances she is forced to return home. The stories and miniatures are lyrical, telling about love, devotion, disappointment. The main theme is love. The author compares the driving forces of difficult destinies with the wind, which helps to stretch the sail and, on the waves of life, rush towards love, which is the determining vector of our entire existence.