Elena Dolgopyat is a prose writer and screenwriter. Author of the books “Thin Glass”, “Wardrobe”, “Motherland”, “Russian”. In 2017, the collection of short stories “Motherland” was shortlisted for the National Bestseller Award. A person looks at himself in the mirror and sees an outsider in it. What is the reason? The inertia of life, when a person ceases to feel alive, ceases to see and hear, and each new day repeats the previous one? Fear of life and death? Fear to be? Or envy of someone else's life and someone else's fate? Elena Dolgopyat's stories in the new collection “Someone else's Life” entertain and awaken the reader from inertia. At least for a moment the world seems strange.