And even heaven can seem like hell if that heaven is someone else’s and you only look at the apples on its trees from the outside… This is how forty-year-old Anna Ermolova greets her anniversary. Outwardly, everything is fine for her: her husband runs a business, she publishes a magazine—so refined as well as popular—her grown son loves and respects her. But in truth, Anna has long faced a problem familiar to many women whom psychologists call “victims of early marriage”: her husband has another family, and in that family a daughter is growing up… How should one behave in such a situation? What is better—continue living with her husband under one roof, or remain alone? Anna finds the answer in an unexpected way, deciding to investigate the history of the Ermolov family. The key lies in the diary of a woman who lived in their apartment many years ago…