A woman and her ‘relationship’ with the world is the main theme of Olga Kobylyanska’s prose. Is it good to get married happily or to neglect personal happiness for the sake of art? This is the point at which the search is focused in the story ‘Behind Situations’ and the short story ‘Ideas’. A fatal coincidence of circumstances, mystical signs and hypnosis sessions are intertwined with conversations about people and music, the choice of life path and the chaos of the female soul, money and betrayal in its various forms. And then there are two men, between whom it is impossible for a girl with a bizarre character and the exotic name Aglaya-Felitsitas to find balance in a world that is already feeling the breath of the First World War.