The artistic capacity and spiritual accents of each story in this collection leave a feeling of organic unity. Muravyova can write about love, jealousy, betrayal, but she invariably gropes for the main thing: that knot within which life is interfaced with death. Six months after her husband’s funeral, a woman finds out about his infidelity, a janitor brings girls left without an overnight stay to her communal apartment, a bandit dies at the hands of his accomplices, but on the last evening he experiences a feeling that turns his whole soul upside down... Each plot is open to fate, hiding inside him.