“Everything in a person should be beautiful: face, clothes, soul, and thoughts,” wrote Chekhov. Anton Pavlovich can be forgiven for being mistaken, because, although he was a doctor, he was a therapist, not a plastic surgeon. If he were a plastic surgeon, he would write that everything in a person should be beautiful, and first of all the nose. Even the most beautiful eyes and plump lips can be spoiled by a “potato” nose. A thin, elegant nose, on the contrary, can easily transform the most boring face. This is why rhinoplasty is so popular among patients. Anna V. was a very beautiful girl, and only a long nose separated her from the ideal. It was with this problem that she came to the Nizhny Novgorod clinic “Paluxe”. And after some time, a phone call rang in Berg’s office, and a fellow doctor tearfully asked Alexander to come to Nizhny Novgorod as an expert and help understand the reasons for the unsuccessful operation. Once again, surgeon Berg was faced with a mystery...