About the book: 2011 / Moscow, 2007. The generation of forty-year-olds is summing up the first results of life. The prosperous world of Kira Chernetsova, the wife of a successful developer, built, it would seem, so wisely, begins to crack. Kira's son, ninth-grader Gosha, leaves home. The husband, experiencing one love affair after another, loses control over the business. Careerist friends who have experienced the struggle for existence only add fuel to the fire. At this moment, Kira’s classmate, doctor of biology Alexey Froyanov, returns home to Moscow from Edinburgh after a long absence..