The simplest thing in the world

The story with his wife left Valery Stepanovich a deep, ugly trace in the soul. He decided that he could never love a woman again. Even sudden blindness did not change his attitude to the opposite sex - false and empty. And only after meeting with Luda Valera suddenly felt how his soul shuddered, as if after a deep fainting, and was filled with something unknown, enchanting, tender. He first hugged the woman and did not despise her, on the contrary, he wanted to hide her in himself in order to protect her from an evil and stupid world. Lyudmila"s happiness was also sudden. She had not expected anything from life for a long time. She was nearly thirty -five, and over all these years, not a single man looked at her otherwise, as with regret. And now Luda was simply afraid to die from happiness surging on her.
Alien happiness, as a rule, becomes someone"s grief ...
In the story of a blind massage therapist, as in other works included in this book, Era Ershov turns to the topic of the fragility of human life