About the book: 2020 / Eight long, hard years at the academy - and everything went down the drain! Tatyana did not understand what happened to her. The closer the exam got, the worse she felt. My legs felt like they were filled with lead and stopped obeying me. But should she speak before a commission that will decide her future: should she be the leading lady of the leading theater or loom among the endless sad swans filling the stage for extras? And yet, the jumps turned out to be difficult, she fell to the floor with a roar, as if she had crossed the threshold of a ballet class for the first time. Tatyana failed the exam. She was desperate. What will father say? He put his life on her career! He raised his daughter himself after the death of her mother, worked with her, and put all his heart into it. And she... She failed, she failed, she tried poorly. I wanted to get drunk. And suddenly the girl decided that she would do just that. Because she didn’t want anything else. In a bar filled with a motley crowd, Tatyana met a guy. Impudent and smiling, he treated her, asked her questions, and made frank jokes. Dark thoughts left my head, the evening carried on warm waves, making me forget about everything in the world. The girl came to her senses only in the morning. What horror! I need to quickly run home and explain my absence to my father. Only after the night with a stranger, something changed in her, doubts appeared. Does she want to be a ballerina, is that her choice? Or was she destined for a different fate, and she was only fulfilling her father’s will? The book contains obscene language.