Soon, very soon—goodbye, scorching Tashkent. Ahead is the school prom night, and on we go! Olga Gorskaya, the daughter of a responsible regional committee worker, is headed for MSU and for the capital, where she will walk along busy streets with her new friend—a Muscovite to the bone. And he will be there, Anvar. But fate decides otherwise: it wipes the white stripes completely from her life and separates her from her beloved for many years. Only dance—her life’s work—saves Olga again and again… The novel’s events take place in different times: both the eighties and the two-thousands. Alexandra Delmare is the creative pseudonym of Irina Agashina. A philologist, she lives and works in Yaroslavl.