This audiobook is about fragile things: about the brittle old age, about timid childhood, about neighbors in the same stairwell who suddenly disappear from the bench, about a smoky church on the top floor of a hospital, about a reserved-seat carriage where a woman loudly snored all night, about lost letters from Mariupol, about red currant that bleeds if you pick it carelessly from the branch, about the world glimpsed from under the brim of a new USA California baseball cap.