What seems absurd today may someday appear in the guise of truth, and any immutable axiom tomorrow will be declared an error, as has happened more than once. The novel has two plot lines. The action of the first takes place in Russia in 1993, the events of the second unfold in Florence and Milan at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. Doctor Lisa Boguslavskaya’s twelve-year-old son disappears under mysterious circumstances, but she does not even allow the thought of his death... The young Florentine artist is haunted by failures: his paintings and sculptures perish immediately after their creation. The storylines intersect when a manuscript by Francesco Melzi, unknown to the world, ends up in the possession of his descendant, Paul Melzi. Maybe the connection between times is much closer than we believe, and centuries are not coupled carriages running in the same direction? “Lisa’s Smile” is the first novel in Tatyana Nikitina’s planned trilogy about the mysteries of Time.