For the first time in Russian, a new collection of stories by E.-E. Schmitt "Revenge and Forgiveness". Four destinies, four stories in which the author takes a close look at the most cruel hidden feelings that control our lives, penetrates into the innermost secrets of personality, trying to answer the question: how to regain a share of humanity if life stubbornly confronts us with envy, indifference, vice or a crime?