Veronika Smyslovskaya looks wonderful, has a prestigious job, and has had a long romance with a talented neurosurgeon. But her own life seems like one loss after another—because in her youth she dreamed of a different profession, a different love… Why do her dreams never come true? After moving from Moscow to St. Petersburg, new people appear in Veronika’s life. Among them is Luka Ilyich Gromov. Fate had prepared him a brilliant musical future. So why did it never happen? Perhaps there are people who simply aren’t made for happiness—and both of them, Veronika and Gromov, belong to that category. But life is always more complicated than our ideas about it. And a ray of hope can illuminate it at the most unexpected moment—when it seems that everything is already clear and that there’s no reason to count on anything…