When Nikolaev left his wife with a newborn sick child, it seemed to him that he had simply turned the page of life and started a new one. It’s like in a school notebook: there are a lot of marks on this sheet, let’s start with a clean one, everything will be neat, correct – as it should be. It took him a long time to understand: you can’t tear out pages from life like you can from a school notebook. Meanness is very expensive, and working on mistakes is simply impossible. Maria Metlitskaya’s new book is stories about those who make mistakes. And, as always, about life, which, like a strict teacher, does not allow you to tear out damaged pages.