“Fate brought me together with Strizhenov several times, as if she was testing the strength of my feelings,” says actress Lionella Strizhenova. In 1955, 17-year-old Lionella Skirda watched the film “The Gadfly” for the first time and was amazed by the beauty and courage of the main character, played by Oleg Strizhenov. Providence sent them a chance meeting in Lionella's hometown - Odessa, where the filming of the film "The Mexican" took place. That day, the girl was going to the clinic and suddenly saw a crowd. Strizhenov stood in the very center of the set. “He turned, looked at me and said: “Don’t drive her away.” And during a break between filming he came up and asked my name. That’s how we met,” says Lionella Ivanovna. But it was a fleeting episode. They met again only years later and never parted again. This book is an extremely sincere story by Oleg Aleksandrovich Strizhenov about himself and his wife.