A family drama, written harshly, frankly, hopelessly, reminiscent of Bergman's cinema. The man is too young and busy with his career, and the woman desperately wants children and is already languishing with this desire, already destroying their union. Finally, the beloved makes up his mind: he is afraid of losing her. And when everything (but not at all easy) works out, twins are born - ahead of schedule. The family's life, full of tense anticipation and exhausted hopes, continues in the hospital. Until something terrible happens... This is a piercing and frank book about happiness - and the infinity of pain, and the inevitability of guilt. The amount of retribution that befalls us on this earth sometimes seems unreasonably high. But maybe the whole point is that it is thoughts that cause events, and not vice versa. And it is precisely our fear that attracts what we fear most.