Nelly Delacour is twenty-five years old, she loves books, doesn’t like fuss and haste, believes in signs of fate and is secretly in love with philosophy professor Daniel Beauchamp, with whom she is writing her master’s thesis. And besides, Nellie does not trust overly handsome men and never, under any circumstances, flies on airplanes! However, you can escape from cold Paris to fabulous Venice in the middle of winter by train, especially when for some reason everything in your life is going wrong and you urgently need to get rid of suffering because of unrequited love... And then one January morning, having withdrawn everything from the bank her savings, Nelly frivolously sets off on a journey that will become the main adventure of her life, and will also force our heroine to radically change some of her views on the world... The novel is published for the first time in Russian.