Lazar Lindt, a brilliant scientist and a big child, ‘a lawless comet in a circle of calculating luminaries’, is the center of the infernal personal stories of three extraordinary women. The childless Marusya, the wife of his older friend, will fall in love with a funny young man who appeared on the threshold of her house in 1918, not at all filial love, but it will remain his secret. After the war, in the closed city of N, the luminary of Soviet science will fall head over heels in love with young Galina and literally steal her into ‘another life’, but... will earn only serious hatred. The third ‘‘woman of Lazarus’, the orphan granddaughter Lidochka, will inherit his genius nature, but will dream of only one thing - to find her own, unimaginable home, full of warmth and the creaking of real floorboards. Marusya's house.’