The first part of the “Eccentric” trilogy, which is based on stories from the life of Lyudka, the eldest daughter of Nikolai and Ekaterina Nikitin, wandering around Soviet Uzbekistan in search of a better life. The main character lives with her parents in the town of Rishtan. A sensitive, responsive, hardworking fifth-grader shares with her family all the hardships of a penniless existence, while remaining a cheerful person, gravitating towards everything pure, beautiful and noble. She is loved and appreciated by her close people and teachers, she has many friends among children of Russian and Uzbek nationality. But is her childhood cloudless? The unbridled temper of her father, her first love, the trauma of her little brother, the death of a classmate and other events lead the girl to amazing discoveries, feelings, desires and actions. A journey into the world of a ten-year-old student will open the reader's eyes to many aspects of her growing up in the reality of the early sixties of the twentieth century.