“Three in the House, Not Counting the Dog” are sad and bright, short and wise stories about our lives, seen not from the front entrance, but from the back staircase. A life in which, as in a Bosch painting, human joys, vices and temptations are inextricably intertwined. Shcherbakova again and again asks the same soul-piercing damned question about a person’s right to make mistakes. Only saints and animals do not make mistakes, but man lives crookedly and askew, like nettles near a country fence. Mistakes of love, mistakes of friendship, mistakes of vision and memory. Self-deceptions and sudden insights that lead a schoolgirl to suicide, a widower to the apartment of his first childhood love, a single mother to the party, God and the Devil to the soul of each of them. Truthfully, accurately - so that you believe immediately and irrevocably!