About the title
Nadya is a successful ENT surgeon, but by the age of 40 she suddenly realizes that she knows nothing at all about herself. Every day at work she examines her patients' senses, but she has forgotten how to listen to her own feelings — or perhaps she never knew how. Her husband Boris left her two years ago, unable to bear the routine, though the couple still isn't divorced. Nadya is raising her daughter Olivia and continues to live in her mother-in-law's apartment. Nadya needs change in order to see that the world is actually full of love. And six "lessons of tenderness" appear in her life, each of which will help her rediscover herself, her own voice, and her new hope.