Nikita Lokshin

Alina had everything a university graduate could dream of — her own apartment, a loving boyfriend, and good job prospects. But after her friend died of breast cancer, Alina began to seriously consider the scale of this disease. A chance acquaintance she met at dance lessons suggests she get a doctor’s check‑up...A few days later, this chance acquaintance would become the dearest person in her life.

The plot is based on three stories united by a single theme — love, like a coin with two sides. Jealousy, distrust, suffering, and greed stand in opposition to bright feelings, self‑sacrifice, and kindness.

Svetlana is the main character, a 42-year-old woman, a neurologist. Goes to advanced training courses. At lectures, considering this occupation very pointless, together with colleagues, he enters into a controversy with a famous professor who has been studying the human brain all his life. The man emotionally makes it clear to the women present that their behavior is very justified, since the human brain, in fact, always resists its own work, fulfilling its main natural purpose – to transmit the genome to the next generation. And modern society, trying to make people out of us, is only rushing against nature itself. Svetlana's personal life is not particularly developing. She's married. There are no children. Emotional and domestic disorder forces her to have a relationship on the side. What will she do at the most critical moment of her life and what will be her future fate, will it be the choice of her own mind or will nature put everything in its place?

After her father’s mysterious suicide, a young student who inherited an incredible number of secrets from him, unable to believe that her father could have taken such a step, turns to the mysterious Alexander Bennet, a young detective who carefully conceals his existence from the world. Bennet learns that her father was connected to a case from twenty years ago — a case involving a serial rapist. Bennet sets about unraveling this web, as he has his own interest in this story.