With intense emotional flair, the story “Stars, Souls and Clouds” is set against intoxicating Crimean landscapes. Young people fall in love, arrange dates, and dream of the future to the sound of a guitar. But they get around in wheelchairs and hospital stretchers, and the action takes place in a sanatorium for teenagers with severe diseases of the bones and joints. The author uses an intriguing narrative device: each new chapter devoted to a different hero begins with the final words of the previous one, subtly hinting at how similar this illness has made the lives of these boys and girls.