Two young women doing the same trip by train Nice-St.Petersburg in the opposite direction and over a century apart. March 1881, Anna, 16, the daughter of Grand Duke Aleksandrovich Ulyanov, is pleased to return to St. Petersburg, far from Nice and lavish parties organized by his mother during the summer season when the great Russian aristocracy is found. She loves horses and Dimitri, who once made her a compliment as his appearance and character discourage any attempt at seduction. A century later, Irina goes to Nice and an uncertain future because her life plays double or quits by agreeing to escape poverty, joining a stranger met on the internet who has paid his trip, one-way obviously. It is during this train trip that the lives of these two young women will switch. And it is in the very last pages the reader will discover what binds! This short novel, 157 pages reads easily and is curious to see the end. But the theme of the camera of train travel, place of all possibilities, and construction of the narrative that juxtaposes two opposing destinies, were repeatedly developed in literature and has become commonplace.
