The life and creative path of Victoria Tokareva is filled with friendship, love, amazing events, meetings and, most importantly, the “habit of creativity,” which, to quote the author, “is also an addiction, and it is useless to fight it.” Tolstoy and Chekhov, Dovlatov and Voinovich, Danelia and Fellini, Volodin, Mityaev, Todorovsky - all of them are heroes of the essays and essays included in the collection. And of course, an autobiographical story, because “family is the main value of a person. She supports left and right. It doesn’t allow you to fail and give up.” The collection ends with a brilliant interview – the quintessence of the writer’s life principles and philosophical system.