It turns out that even an armchair scientist can get into a detective story—and what a detective story at that. Irina Fedorovna is a psychologist who deals with a fashionable modern topic - dreams. The fascination of this story is not only in the dizzying plot. The heroine of the novel is smart. She is charming in her judgment, femininely perceptive, gifted in love and generally knows a lot about relationships with men. Seeing reality through her eyes is incredibly interesting. And the life described in the book is extremely diverse. Here are the first years of perestroika, the putsch, the machinations of the KGB, travel through the cities of America and old Europe. New York, San Francisco, Berlin and, of course, Paris...