This book - one of those in that it is written about life and fates of people in Russia and Soviet Union in the twentieth century. Protagonists - proprietor of grocery, his daughter and neighbourly boy are meet first in the sixteenth year. Revolution and afterclaps will change their life, they will lose each other and will find again, they will live all tests and tragedies of the thirtieth years with the country, they will be touched by war and blockade. In a book happy end - what, unfortunately, probably could not be in life. This book is a contribution of memory and respect expensive to the author to the people.