About the book: 1968 / During her short life, Asya devoured many books where the most unfortunate child was an orphan. And in the famine, in the devastation, she herself became orphaned. She is scared, now everyone can offend her, outwit her... “Everyone has become hardened because they have forgotten God,” Asya reflects. Asya accompanies her uncle, Andrei, to the front, to the civil war. Small, in a velvet bonnet that has slid to one side, she stands in the square near the station, exhausted from bitter thoughts. “The whole earth is now as unpleasant as this square - littered, disheveled, alien” - so it seems to Asya. What awaits her in a new world, incomprehensible to her, what kind of people will take care of her fate? Before, as Asya remembers, orphans were taken to orphanages. She herself once observed a line of orphanage children, looking like little old men, in long gray coats. These were “state-owned, looked after” children... Is something similar really awaiting her?! Asya doesn’t know what amazing events lie ahead of her. All the more surprising since she herself is inclined to act rashly. Let's see how the girl's adventures turn out in the end. What does this mean - Asya finds a family?