Irina Lukinova

In Petersburg during perestroika there are two people, Alya and Nika. She is a little funny Petersburg intellectual; he is a French architect. They cannot live without each other, but they cannot together, either in the ancient Lyon castle, or in her communal apartment inhabited by colorful neighbors. Next to Alya is her childhood friend - Mitya, whose love she does not notice. He uses Ali's ridiculous mistake and Niki's jealousy to separate them for years.

To save his classmate Lisa, the fragile, dreamy Lesha commits a crime - he steals her mother’s talisman, a brooch in the shape of a dragonfly, in order to sell it and buy Lisa a ticket to her mother, who married abroad, after which Lisa stopped growing altogether. Lesha goes through all the torments of punishment, changes, and as a result, both he and all his friends who participated in Operation Mukhadrakon have their most cherished dreams come true.