Chistaia rechka - Terent'eva Nataliia Mikhailovna

"I remember this strange silence that came in the house. It's like it's laid ears. And when it was postponed, there were no more sounds. Then it passed. A month or two later, when a very different life came..."
Another life of Lena Brusnikina is an orphanage, where its laws: strict, honest and unfair at the same time. Children know how to get around them, but they cannot cross the abyss separating them from the "normal" world they know so little about. They are the same as their home, but the world around them is different. They don't learn to love, to trust, to respect, they learn to survive. All their feelings are extremely sharpened, and any event - from the missing thing to the sympathy of the teacher - in this universe causes a real explosion with unpredictable consequences. And if a fourteen-year-old girl is smart and good in front of her eyes, she suddenly has to solve very adult issues ...