A novella about three November days in 1921, when twenty-year-old Olya Kirispova runs away with her husband from Petrograd. She remembers her carefree childhood, her parents, her turbulent dreamy youth, and the murder of a friend. She tries to understand how everything that happened led her not to the man she loves, but to a fictitious husband— in one and the same car. All the way, she is tormented by questions about friends and their fate. But random events during the journey reveal to her the secrets of the past and the meaning of her life.