In Dina Rubina's prose, cities come to life and long-gone people return, memories long hidden in family albums regain the fourth dimension, everyday life sounds like a symphony and turns out to be truer than what we see around us - or it seems to us that we see when we we glance over the familiar attributes of existence, no longer trying to understand it. This book contains stories about different things - about different people and places, family legends unfold against the backdrop of history, and seemingly invisible people turn into wonderful characters of true reality, which is more amazing than any literature.