Once he rented a room from a lonely lady of old age .. She became attached to him, began to dress up, gave him a camera, and soon began to insist on intimacy. He wanted to escape, but, succumbing to her pleas, he remained. Became friends . And then he fell in love with a girl... Years passed, he clearly remembers the name of the old woman from her participation came success in his career. But he can not remember the name of a once beloved one - with her happiness has gone from his life .. In the story, "What was her name?".. as in the other stories of the new book A. Snegirev, you will not find heroes and scoundrels, good and bad, reproofs and verdicts . Accident here becomes fatal, temporary - eternal, and everywhere there is a piercing sense of the drama of life and the defenselessness of love.