The eternal search for work, wedding celebrations with friends, holidays according to the established program... For freelance photographer Alice Johnston, life drags on steadily and slowly. Even her regular boyfriend is already pretty boring to her. And suddenly Gretchen bursts into her life. And the world is transformed, as if in a kaleidoscope. New acquaintances, new romantic relationships... But Alice still does not know that her friend has a secret, which, like a time bomb, threatens to overshadow the holiday, which, it would seem, will never end now... For the first time in Russian, a new book by Lucy Dawson, author of the novel “His Other Love,” one of the most striking literary debuts of recent years.