About the book: 1984 / ...Five old women parted late at night. Going out into the street, they laughed quietly and pushed each other, like schoolgirls running away from class. The game that Basilia proposed would bring excitement into their dull existence. And the fact that they would do everything themselves, and their husbands would not know anything, gave them the opportunity to take revenge for eternal marital obedience. And the fact that people would die in the end did not touch them at all. They had long lived on the edge of life and death, and they were not afraid of either life or death...