Slavka grows in a provincial Russian city in the nineties. He is like everyone else, but also completely different. Like everyone else, he walks in the yard, goes to school, goes to his grandmothers in the village in the summer, reads books and is afraid of vaccinations. But at the same time, he is different from his peers: he counts time in three days, when he ends up in the hospital on New Year’s Eve, notices details and smells, writes good jokes in a notebook, visits village witches with his grandmothers, tries to learn words in Tatar, speaks with nightingales and waits all the time dad from daily ambulance duty. Together with the reader, Slava will go from six to fourteen years old, growing up and understanding this world more and more deeply, experiencing both the purest happiness and the most real grief. The book will be of interest to both modern children of primary and secondary school age, and adults whose childhood was in the nineties. These are stories about why it is important to treat children as equals and how to embrace the inner child within you.