Ronya, the daughter of a Jewish tailor, a lively, cheerful girl, married in defiance of her father for love and lived happily until her husband was arrested. Taisiya, sincere and spontaneous, from a family of former kulaks, also against her father’s will, became the wife of a poor man. Tamara, strict, straightforward, but taught by the bitter experience of a generation of repression and war, was accustomed to the fact that a man must be taken care of, no matter what happens. Their stories are in many ways typical of Russian women, but they also have unique and unique notes.