Elena Chizhova is the author of five novels. The last of them, “The Time of Women,” was awarded the Russian Booker Prize, and “Lavra” and “Half-Breed” (in the magazine version – “Criminal”) were included in the shortlists of this prestigious award. The heroine of the novel, Masha Argo, is talented, ambitious, loves history, because she wants to find the answer “to the most important question - why?” The notorious fifth point prevents her from enrolling in the history department of Leningrad University: it’s the mid-seventies. The girl takes a risky step - she falsifies her application form, gets admitted and... starts a “guerrilla” war. One against all!!! But who is she now? Victim or unpunished criminal?