About the book: 2012 / The circle of life, alternating successes and misfortunes, separations and unexpected meetings. A cycle of passions and hobbies, envy and friendship, betrayal and selflessness. The daughter of a priest who devotes herself to a young poet, an aristocrat torn between pure love for a lady and carnal passion for a beautiful waitress, the wife of a respected politician who has become a victim of a predatory and cynical gigolo - each of they, in essence, just want to be happy. Which of them will be able to find happiness, and which will be doomed to suffering? And what price even the “luckiest” will have to pay for the fulfillment of desires?