Women's Day

When you’re feeling bad, remember: it won’t always be that way. But when you’re sure you’re happy, keep in mind too: that won’t last forever either. Unfortunately, we often forget about both. Yet fate never misses the moment to find comfort in time—or, on the contrary, to give you a rude wake-up call. And that is exactly what Maria Metlitskaya’s new novel is about.

On the eve of Women’s Day, three successful women—an actress, a doctor, and a writer—come to the studio of a popular talk show. All three are certain that they are expected to tell a story of success, “how they made themselves.” Each of them has given such interviews more than once, and over time truth and fiction got mixed up so much that the heroines themselves sometimes couldn’t tell one from the other.

But everything turns out to follow a completely different script. Women’s Day becomes yet another test—of endurance, decency, and the ability to love and forgive. And also another reminder: it can’t always be really bad, and it can’t always be really good.