Homeland - mother or stepmother? Are children a blessing or a curse? Is there any justification for betrayal? - questions that we have lost the habit of asking ourselves.The life of a woman born in 1940. In prison. From a repressed mother and an investigator in her case. Orphanage orphan. Soviet Mata Hari. Her way of the cross is from Stalin to Putin, through love and shame, through pain, shame and madness. To the light.If the soul has not yet completely hardened from the surrounding madness, read Alexander Staroverov's new book about the past and the present, about love, shame and hope. About all of us.