In order to marry Ivan Bezzub, Fira Berkovich, the daughter of a Nikopol rabbi, had to be urgently baptized. Well, after that, staying in his native Nikopol was mortally dangerous. And the young people hastily set sail for Odessa. Having brought his young wife to the courtyard on Moldavanka, Vanya vows to eventually find another home. He cannot know that it is here that not only his life will pass, but also the lives of four generations of Bezzubov - with all the neighbors, historical cataclysms, cats, small scandals and big tragedies... The beginning of this story is in the first book of the “Odessa Saga” by Yulia Verba “ Let's go."