This touching, sometimes very sad, but sometimes incredibly funny story consists entirely of simple, naive, but amazing in its sincerity letters, which throughout her life the sitter Shurochka addressed to her grandmother, the legendary revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai. Slowly, together with the heroine of the novel, the reader is immersed in the world that Shurochka creates for herself: her men, her misfortunes, her everyday successes and spiritual hardships - and all this against the backdrop of her inescapable craving for beauty, for harmony, to which the immature soul of a woman strives and the knowledge of which was given to her by her first man - her own stepfather. Toward the end of her life, the aged model comes to understand a simple truth: the blood of her ancestors is not always the basis on which she can build her own happiness...