Roman "Embroidery on stealing fabric" is history of Cinderella from a depth growing in domestic hell, where a father is aggressive and drunk, and a mother can not protect daughter and itself. A grandmother, rural healer, passes to the heroine the secrets of ethnomedicine, healer gift and inflexible character. Пятнадцатилетняя Valentina studies in a regional center on a masseuse and marries to Moscow. Mismarriages and humiliating novel with a stage-director, вынуждают her to earn at the massage table on an own apartment. Valentina visits an esoteric university, takes away a mother from a province, adopts a drug girl-addict, opens the cabinet and by chance gets on television. In Останкино she meets an ex-minister in that fell in love centuries ago unexpectedly, and a social elevator rushes to Valentin on a top. Life is so accelerated and becomes complicated, that Valentina seems to, as though she all the time taken off in the cinema, playing a stranger role. The action of the first part of novel embraces a period from the end of fiftieth to the ninetieth.