Artem, Zhenya, Yulia… The heroes of this book are “people with a past”: each of them survived a collapse—betrayal by loved ones, the death of close ones. Sometimes grief swept over them so completely it seemed nothing could be worse, that life was over—on the very bottom of a precipice. But there is no pit without a bottom. They proved strong—they found that very straw to cling to, and climbed out of the black whirlpool of despair. All three of them sharply understand: the life you are given the second time cannot be wasted on trifles—you can’t squander it by slipping it through your fingers.