Three brave girls from different walks of life dream of finding their way in life. And this search leads everyone to the fight for women's rights. Evelyn is seventeen and dreams of Oxford. The father can pay for her education, but has already prepared a different future for his daughter: she should study not Latin, but housekeeping and get married. May is fifteen and supports the suffragettes, but not their methods of struggle. And she doesn’t understand why others don’t accept her point of view, because violence is terrible. And when she meets Nell, she sees a kindred spirit in her. Now they can dream of a just world together. Or not? The struggle for personal freedom challenges the heroines and draws them into a whirlpool of events: suffragette speeches, rallies, clashes with the police, arrests, misunderstanding of loved ones and the First World War. The novel by British writer Sally Nichols was shortlisted for the National Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. published in Russian for the first time.