This book is the first collection of prose by Narine Abgaryan: the novels “Three Apples Fell from the Sky” (awarded the Yasnaya Polyana Prize for 2016), “People who are always with me,” novels and short stories. Whatever Narine Abgaryan writes about, about the artless life of the inhabitants of a small mountain village, about the horrors of war or about childhood - all her works speak about the beauty of life. And about the fact that in any situation you need to remain human. “There is no place for pain on the top of Hali-kara. Everything is yours - in you, everything is yours - with you. Stone thresholds, a chapel dome overgrown with grass, morning mists - cascading from the tops of the hills like rivers of milk - forward, forward, to where you can, coming close, look into the windows of the dwellings. Portrait of a grandmother in a blackened wooden frame, childhood home, ancestors’ graves in an old cemetery, a red village road that starts in your heart. There are traces of those who left on it. Inhale and exhale. Inhale and exhale. One, two, three, four, five... Don't take it away, don't give it away. All yours are in you, all yours are with you forever.”