Wailing Wall

Asya is happy with her husband Sergey — he is a doctor and older than her, with him she feels as if behind a stone wall. Work is also going well: Asya teaches choreography to children, staging the ballet «Romeo... and Juliet» with them. But one day on her way to work, she decides to take a shortcut and goes through a wasteland. There she meets a strange passerby who bluntly says that he will die without her. Asya struggles to get rid of him, but for some reason, this encounter does not leave her mind. She has nothing in common with this person; she does not need him. But for some reason, Asya thinks about him more often and eventually decides to track him down, unaware of the risks she is taking….

In her novels, Tatyana Bocharova synthesizes various genres: it is both a detective story and a melodrama, and necessarily a lyrical tale about human feelings and experiences. Her heroes are ordinary people, contemporaries of ours who, by the will of fate, find themselves in a difficult situation. They face a challenging choice, need to navigate through the intricacies of schemes and deception, not to break, to endure, and to help not only themselves but also those who need their assistance.