Get married, girls! And then there will be someone to protect you... For a long time, the elderly girl Faya could not understand this simple thing and defended herself alone from greedy relatives who decided to seize her old house. She fought for her life and place in the sun, sometimes resembling a Russian terminator. And she didn't believe in love. Happiness came to her in the face of the brave grandfather Seryozha. And what? This is how the world is structured: once a person is born, he is destined to be happy. That's it. The town of Soborsk, where the main character - a 69-year-old girl - has lived her entire modest life, is a recognizable Russian province and at the same time a fairy-tale country. In fairy tales, as you know, unusual things happen. Important events suddenly begin to happen to the heroine, who existed quietly and unnoticed. There is no one to compare Svetlana Borminskaya with; there is no analogue to this new writer in modern Russian prose. The book is permeated with the author's love for dear Soborsk and its inhabitants. It is this love that becomes the source of magic in the novel.