Dear impoverished homeland. Unsettled everyday life. Unfreedom. Who would have thought one could long for all of that! Remember with warmth the cramped communal apartments with broken toilets and eternally dissatisfied neighbors, remember former husbands — failures and drunkards. How can one miss all that in prosperous America!? But the heroines of Olga Isaeva's new cycle of stories do exactly that. They yearn. They miss it. In the calm and well-fed realities, they lack the lost drama! And to feel the taste of life again, they create difficulties for themselves in a foreign land.