A gripping novel that tells of family secrets, kindred spirits and missed opportunities. Two parallel stories, separated by fifty years, full of secrets, self-sacrifice, lies and love... Our time. England. Roberta loves collecting letters and postcards that she comes across in old books. One day, Roberta’s father gives Roberta a suitcase with her grandmother’s books, and in one of them the girl discovers an amazing and exciting letter. It was written by her grandfather, whom she never met. She was always told that her grandfather died in the war. However, the letter was written several months after the date of his supposed death in battle...World War II. Marriage to Albert does not bring Dorothy happiness. Now her husband is at war. One day, a military plane crashes in the field behind her house. This is how Dorothy meets squadron commander Jan Petrikovski. They fall in love with each other. Dorothy thinks that she has now found her happiness. But fate decreed differently. A secret appears in Dorothy's life, the echoes of which will haunt her granddaughter many years later... A stunning work about two worlds, one of which is destroyed by secrets, and the other by truth. For the first time in Russian!