Boris has everything a man needs by the age of fifty. It’s probably too late to count on something new, and what could be new? Meeting Irina, she is 18 years younger, changes everything. One thing remains unclear: how could they have lived before? Perestroika in the country brings them together with famous people, travel around the world is filled with amazing adventures. But Irina gets sick. The doctors say: “It’s nothing to worry about.” And time becomes a pendulum between hope and despair. How to stop him? This is a deep, sincere story about love and friendship, about joy and suffering, and, most importantly, about what makes a person human. The story will give you a strange feeling - a feeling of happiness from every day you live and at the same time pain. It will make you think: will your loved one say “Thank you” to you? Editor’s comment: Such stories do not need a praising comment, because it is difficult to say something more accurate about them than the simple “Life” with a capital “L” - a word that absorbs all its diversity manifestations, dramatic and lyrical.