He and she. Husband and wife. Their love is life-long, but this life is not easy. Various trials befall the family: a home-wrecker war, lack of money, everyday troubles and, finally, frail old age. But everything can be overcome, and even when hopelessness sets in from fatigue, miracles can happen. Through different, but in some ways very similar stories, the entire 20th century flies before the reader’s eyes: the Revolution, the Patriotic War, the turn of the new millennium. Times change, but some things remain unchanged: the ability to love, forgive, wait, hope for the best and rejoice in the happiness that exists.