A magical novel around Lena introverted dreamer, lover of his native Siberia and Vasya, her husband, a brilliant driver, who dreams of going ever higher, recounts the difficulty of agreeing on a daily basis when aspirations of one and the other are so diametrically opposed. The letters sent to Varia, the parent having far higher death of his parents and Dimitri, the exiled engineer who never will leave Moscow are full of poetry and sheds light on its past. Full of doubt at the beginning of perestroika each returns to his expectations and hopes his vision of Russia in this particular soul. The story told of aerospace, in parallel, to children, for Vasya sheds light on this particular period when the Russians have damned the peg to the US by being the first to put a man on the moon. The whole story of the small and big things of existence goes straight to the heart. A great discovery!