A man returns home after two years abroad — but upon witnessing how his wife treats their daughter, he takes a shocking action that changes everything

and Aleksei had been a man who was tired and grieving and who had a young daughter who needed a mother and who had, in his tiredness and grief, perhaps not looked as carefully as he should have at the difference between the presentation of a thing and the thing itself.

They had married. She had moved into the apartment.

Before leaving, when the debts continue reading …