Childhood, adolescence, youth, and maturity of modern forty-year-olds, whose lifestyle and thinking are based on the culture and lack of culture of endless consumption. But one day, their familiar, reliable world shatters into fragments: into scraps of memories, dialogues, and phrases, into things and meanings, into numbers and letters. And in this world, life goes on.

The characters lose and seek love, raise children, face disappointment and hold onto faith, filling the voids of lovelessness. The main character of the collection is a typical representative of her time. Her background includes a Moscow childhood, work in the media, a semi-glamorous life, and a promising career.

In the present, she is a mother of two children at the epicenter of familial and financial collapse. Amid personal and global events, she retains her sense of humor and lives according to Stanislavsky — in the given circumstances, never forgetting to document how the country's shift to a wartime footing affects ordinary people, those who live here and now.