Anna Romanovna never really came to terms with her son’s death. The marriage fell apart; an empty apartment is filled with ghosts of the past. But the strange object—about which her son spoke before the accident—unexpectedly opened for Anya a path to another world. There, the joys of motherhood are available to her again—only now, side by side with that, come the status of a rejected wife, poverty, and loneliness. And once again she has to climb up the social ladder. Nothing—Anya is only glad for the challenges. After all, everything is just beginning…