“At the beginning of September, a new girl came to class. Not the first, like everyone else, because I had a cold for several days. She had just returned from South America and could not stand the Moscow climate yet. In a distant, incredible country, her dad worked as a military attaché. Nobody knew what this meant - military attaché. But it sounded even more beautiful than an astronaut or an Olympic champion. The name of the country also excited the imagination at a time when even Poland seemed like an exotic land, full of inaccessible, unprecedented wonders...” Galina Artemyeva’s stories are wise, subtle and honest. All of them are about us, ordinary people living our usual lives. These are stories about joy and sadness, about temptations and those everyday miracles that sometimes save us in the most difficult moments, about indifference and boundless love.