What can a girl do if, according to her flawlessly lovely relatives, she’s a hopeless plain Jane? Of course: take care of her nieces and nephews, diligently work in the garden at her grandmother’s, and generally be convenient and trouble-free for everyone. Dasha did all of that obediently until, in the park on a rainy day, she stumbled upon two kittens. Naturally, the whole family demanded that she get rid of the kittens—otherwise Dasha would face the terrible fate of an old maid with forty cats!
Instead, Daria investigates the disappearance of the most important document at work, uncovers a conspiracy that threatens her personally, evicts her relatives from her neck, and… not, not thirty-eight more cats—but a dog, for whom she becomes the last hope. And she discovers that happiness, it turns out, isn’t in impeccable beauty.