The new collection of St. Petersburg prose writer Valery Nikolaevich Lyalin contains works written in different years. Before the reader are meetings with different people, the author’s thoughts about the Church, about the fate of Russia, about human destiny. All the stories are united by the author’s surprisingly warm intonation, behind which is a wise interlocutor, an adviser; a person who goes his own way and knows that on the path of life one cannot lose the most important thing - compassion for people and hope in the Lord.