Salikhat lives in a Dagestan village, lost among the mountains. Like all young girls, she dreams of a happy marriage based on mutual love and respect. But her father decides everything for her. Salihat is married against her will to the widower Jamalutdin. The girl finds herself in an unfamiliar house, where a new life with its own routine and responsibilities awaits her. She will have to please not only her husband, but also the rest of the household: her husband’s demanding aunt, her eldest stepson and his capricious wife. But most of all, Salihat is frightened by the mysterious disappearance of Jamalutdin’s first wife, the beautiful Zehra... Her new life seems like a real nightmare, but what the future holds for her remains to be seen. “This is a saga written in the simple and naive language of a sixteen-year-old girl. A saga about what from time immemorial unites all women, regardless of nationality, religion and age: about love, family and children. And also about the expectation of happiness, which will certainly come. You just need to believe, hope and wait.” Finalist of the national literary award “Manuscript of the Year.”