No matter how bitter it is to admit, many women whose children leave their father's home lose their ground under their feet. Where should I go now? There is no longer any need to cook breakfast, get ready for school, wash and mend torn jeans, apply brilliant green to broken knees, check lessons and go to class meetings. Well, what should we do then? “A man’s destiny is his character,” the philosopher Heraclitus asserted many centuries ago. And Anna Arkadyevna, the main character of the novel, who had relied only on herself all her life, decided to start a new life. But it turned out to be not as easy as she thought...