Heirs Are Chosen

If justice ruled the world, only the descendants of smart, brave, and hardworking people would be rich—not the heirs of thieves, swindlers, pirates, and other rogues. Just think: a person works, tries, creates something—at least a house and a tree—then passes their wealth on to their children. And the children, in turn, also work and build up what they inherited, and so on from century to century. But it doesn’t work out that way! Something—or someone—keeps interfering in this wonderful process. First, nature itself with hurricanes, floods, and other things considered acts of force majeure. Second, the same robbers and thieves—otherwise how would they have gotten rich? Third, the state, which in principle can be classified with equal success as both natural disasters and robbers with thieves. But there’s also a fourth: heirs may turn out to be nothing like the people you’d want to leave something to, or outright fools who will squander any fortune. And, fifth, a person might simply not have any heirs.

Sisters Galya and Lena unexpectedly receive an inheritance, and each of them handles it in their own way. Whether they do it right or not—judge for yourself.