A gnome, a bright elf-woman, and a drow adapt to life on Earth. One writes books, forges Cossacks’ sabers, and releases computer games. The other goes shopping, crams for exams in a university, browses the expanses of the Internet, and quietly practices spells. The third dances striptease, cooks borscht, and finds love. Together they fight bandits, hide from foreign intelligence, help the FSB and the police, and dream of returning home.
Women from Russia who find themselves in a fantasy world fight monsters, learn the basics of magic, hold peaceful negotiations with orcs, search for missing relatives, teach dark-skinned natives free-style and Greco-Roman wrestling, and save dragons—yet they don’t rush back to their homeland.