This novella is the first of four novellas in the “Another World” cycle. Altogether the cycle will bring together four novellas devoted to the elements of Water, Fire, Air, and Earth. The first novella, “The Little White Bride,” is dedicated to the element of Water. In it, a girl named Marina, having broken up with her young boyfriend, travels to the south of Russia to a village near Gelendzhik, to visit friends of her parents. There she meets her first love—Oscar.