18 contemporary short stories, psychological images of people's hopes, loves, disappointments, dreams .. the swansong of a trumpet player in a smoky cafe .. a cold disappointing marriage ... chance meetings of passengers in a train. Chords of spring, a child picking violets, rejection ... a kiss, tentative attempt at love .. sorrow ... on the banks of Lake Ohrid sheets are whitened on the sand, an elderly lady who came to the city with her son tries it in the city, they get blackened by soot - a longing for one's place of birth, youth ... in the dressing room ... an understudy's triumphant evening on stage, her lover absent, disinterested ..