About the book: 2023 / Dimka, a seven-year-old boy, is happier today than ever. After all, he will meet his mother from work and together they will go to choose a hamster! The boy can’t wait to share this news with everyone: with the gloomy, silent portrait of his father, who is valiantly beating the Germans somewhere far on the front, and with his mother’s serious boss, whom Dimka met at the factory entrance. Only my mother, whose look is even more tired than usual, for some reason does not share Dimka’s joy at all…