Fira was an ugly girl from a Jewish family who lived in Minsk at that time. Fira’s father, a retired colonel, was nothing special - neither in appearance, nor in character, nor in his position in his own family... So, a gray figure against the general background .The mother is a school teacher with sad eyes and a strong character, who painfully loved her daughter. Fira was in her third year of medical school. She graduated from school a year later than her peers due to illness: at the age of fifteen, the girl was given a terrible diagnosis - sarcoma of her right leg. Fira fought hard for life, and her mother’s love helped her in this fight. It was her mother who instilled hope in her, infected her with her firmness, and strengthened her faith in the future.