A small collection of stories, like a travel first aid kit, should contain only the necessary and vital: a little about love, a little about old age, a little about work and still a little about love, because it is the strongest of medicines. The heroes of this the books became mostly men: an aging writer who survived a terrorist attack; a Moscow janitor with the imagination of a teenager; a system administrator of a faceless company who knows how to travel to the other side of death... The plots here are both real and fictional, and the main idea that the author wants to convey to the reader is the idea of the revival of goodness in the soul of a disappointed person.