Some people do everything wrong… Refusing a profitable and familiar job because of a picked-up kitten, and getting sent from your home St. Petersburg to exile—into the winter and unfamiliar Moscow? Well, okay. Accidentally meeting there a red-haired girl and falling in love at first sight? Sure! Looking for her in a strange city, again and again failing? Happens! Finding her, falling even more—and losing each other anyway? End up in different cities, with a huge abyss between two families, but still trying to reach for each other in spite of everything? Easy! The main and hardest thing is choosing—what do you yourself even want? A successful career with the protection of a grandpa-academe, money, scholarly fame, and an unloved girl whom relatives are pushing on you with all their might? Or the red-haired “veterinarian” Milla, her funny striped cat Murian, and yourself to boot? Even if the Neva and the Moscow River don’t meet, don’t blend into one another—people aren’t rivers, and Max will have to decide for himself how to live and what for.