How often, especially when we are young, do we fight in locked doors? We try to find passionate love for them, African passions, boring, full of incredible events life. Unfortunately, these doors are usually locked.... But in our unrestrained quest for a “cinema” life, we do not notice that there is usually an open one next to the closed door. They are waiting for us, they are waiting for us. And in ordinary life, calm love and stability are happiness, and the volcano of passions is good only in novels. Maria Metlitskaya needs no introduction. Her books are loved, read, passed from hand to hand. They are the ones who can help in a difficult time, when you do not know what to do and with whom to share. Under the cover of the book - a story and two stories, united by a through-line . Which is better a tit in the hand or a crane in the sky? What to choose: knock all your life on a locked door or enter an unlocked one, for which we are waiting? After all, passion does not live forever, but calm, “ordinary” love as it turns out lives.