Leo Tolstoy once said: “All novels end with a wedding, but in vain: it’s like ending a work with an episode in which a man is attacked by robbers in a dark forest.” Andrei Zvyagintsev once said in continuation of this quote that it would be interesting to read a novel that begins with a wedding. Here it is - this novel. This is the story of how my marriage allowed me to release all the worst memories of my childhood, and how those memories almost destroyed my marriage.