“Granny, does love really end after forty years?” – asked the twelve-year-old granddaughter Vera Georgievna. And my grandmother had something to tell me about this topic. She married the ideal man, to whom everything can be forgiven, even easy crushes and infidelity. But here's the problem - for some time Verochka began to notice that the ideal man was increasingly looking towards her best friend, and passions did not subside over the years, on the contrary, they flared up with renewed vigor, reaching their peak just at the age of forty... To the author's collection Ariadna Borisova included stories and novellas. All of them are about inner freedom, human fears and, of course, about love.