Glazami malen'kogo cheloveka, rebenka mozhno uvidet' khotya by chastichno podvig zhenshchiny i materi, perezhivshey vse "prelesti" XX veka s 1908 po 1986 god. Revolyutsiya, grazhdanskaya voyna, repressii, poterya rodnykh, blokadnaya zima Leningrada 1941-42 gg., poslevoennyy golod i, nakonets, Chernobyl'. Pri etom kakoe zhiznelyubie, yumor, optimizm. Period s 1942 po 1950 otrazhen nizhe. Priezd v byvshuyu evropeyskuyu stranu Latviyu na otkrytoy platforme pod dnishchem amerikanskogo gruzovika. Vkhozhdenie v zhizn' cherez detsady latyshskogo i russkogo obraztsa, shkolu, pionerlager'. Vliyanie mestnogo uklada na formirovanie "latviyskogo russkogo."