From youth they were an ideal couple: he was a successful lawyer, she was a gifted artist. Their marriage seemed exemplary, and others envied them. But is everything really so smooth? The situation changes when Polina meets Ilya, and a passion flares up between them. But soon Ilya mysteriously disappears, and Polina discovers she is pregnant. Is it possible to find happiness when the truth can destroy everything that was built over many years? The book includes musical inserts by Alexander Nakarada titled “Basset-hound,” used under a Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 license.