Can you imagine a woman celebrating her beloved cat's birthday? Most likely she is about forty years old, she is well-settled in life, even successful. As a rule, she is divorced - therefore, she is absolutely free in her actions and decisions. Her friends envy her in some ways, but on occasion they can both sympathize and scold her - after all, the unconditional advantages of freedom at any moment threaten to turn into their opposite... Where is this “border” and what is the secret of the harmony of life - these are the problems that Tatyana Nabatnikova raises in her stories with the delicacy of a psychologist and the meticulousness of an engineer examining a delicate mechanism.