In the new collection of stories by Galina Artemyeva, the fates of five women of different ages are intricately intertwined. Here is teenager Alka with her first tragic loves and suffering. Here is a grandmother, wise over the years, who has lost her husband and steadfastly experiences women’s loneliness. Here is Varya, looking for a reliable relationship, who is constantly unlucky with her husbands, and her best friend Marusya, happily married, but anxiously thinking about the prospect of a relationship... Artemyeva’s heroines believe in love as the main force of life, but is it really like that?