Five days—too much or too little? What can you manage, and what will you have to give up? Dmitry Odintsov, heading to an important business meeting, has his car break down on the road and stops to spend the night at a small provincial hotel. What will his stay in a town preparing for a festival turn out to be? Maybe it’s a chance to take a breather in the endless race of life, meet new people, rediscover love? And even become a participant in an unexpected discovery… It seems fate has granted a second chance. There are five whole days to change your life and start everything over. In her new novel, Natalia Litter proves: through times and distances, one thing remains unchanged—human beings, with their passions and weaknesses, living in hope for happiness, striving for it, and still not seeing it right in front of them. Psychologism, an unusual composition, and—finally—the characters of the heroes: vivid and tangible—these are the author’s traits.