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The title of this collection of short stories is no less misleading than the fates of many of its characters. Marriage and everyday life oppress them, remaining almost the only reality on which they can safely rely in a life full of short-lived feelings and long-term experiences. A cross-section of the lives of more than one generation, the events that take place behind the scenes in many homes and on the streets of Kyiv. Survival in the "new" capital of independent Ukraine in the conditions of the "wild market", sporadic trips to the West, sometimes under the pretext of business, sometimes intimate, and often under both...