How can a woman go on living when it suddenly turns out that her beloved husband has been cheating on her for four years because she has become familiar and boring to him—and what he wanted was a magical fairy and a miracle? What exactly should Arina do to keep her life afloat, so it doesn’t shatter against other people’s whims and desires? Her recipe is quite simple: it starts with herself, plus autumn, the cottage, and a cat someone threw out that chased away her loneliness together with insomnia—but minus the husband, his relatives, and the extra obligations that her relatives piled onto her. Of course, some very interesting things come to light: it turns out the husband isn’t ready to live with a "fairy," because with Arina it was more convenient; the son craves the preservation of familiar comfort; the husband’s relatives don’t want him back; and Arina’s parents insist on propriety and are against any divorce. So it turns out that on Arina’s side there is only her cat, good cottage neighbors, a friend with a hurricane temperament, and an autumn that’s ready to give her far, far more than what she lost…