A collection of three short stories, all about women: "Mira", "Russian Death" and "Verka Fouetté"

Each novel tells about the fate of a woman, her hopes for love and the vicissitudes of fate. Country girl Mira dreams of a fiancé, and an officer stays in their house for the night, and Mira soon discovers that she is pregnant … Valya, returning from Venice, where she lived for two years, meets Alexei, her sister’s beloved — and she likes him. Vera, a retired ballerina, teaches yoga at a hotel and falls in love with a married man. And once a Spanish theater comes to their city with a ballet … Each of the women will have to make difficult decisions in an attempt to find happiness.