The heroes of Svetlana Pavlova's novel are our contemporaries, bright, creative people: the talented composer and conductor Zagorsky, his wife Kaleria, who left her career and devoted her life to her husband, becoming his muse and impresario; their daughter Bella, director of a Moscow publishing house. Their destinies are not easy - there are collisions with the state machine, which crushes everything extraordinary and talented, and creative failures, and love that suddenly invades a calm and stable life, and sometimes unworthy actions that are committed by the writer’s far from sinless heroes...