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Lyudmila Yakovleva is a doctor, candidate of medical sciences, and has worked all her life as a research assistant at one of the leading medical institutions in Leningrad. In 1991, together with her husband, an Ingrian Finn, she moved to Helsinki. A difficult period of adaptation to new conditions has begun, as well as comprehension of everything we have lived through.

The book talks about what a person faces when he moves not only from one country to another, but also from one era, the era of the construction of communism, to the era of capitalism, or, as newspapermen often say, to the era of Scandinavian socialism. In her book, the author talks about how hard it is to be unemployed, how she got out of depression and social loneliness, and also about the people she met in her new life. About difficulties and joys, about happiness and misfortune - about what is called life.