Elixir of freedom. Upinsky Yu.A.

Freedom is a relative thing, and the “elixir of freedom” is actually the “spirit of the era”. Each time is its own facet of freedom. And we must be able to achieve it - scientifically or creatively. If you are capable - create, and you can’t - rejoice for another. A couple of young people in Scotland wants to gain freedom of personal creativity, which their parents were deprived of in Soviet times. For freedom, we must give a good price, they say in the West, and they are ready to pay, but how and to whom? The clarification of this with parents gives rise to conflict and misunderstanding. The scientific environment of the husband and the artistic environment of the wife does not give an answer - disputes with colleagues only push for solitude. The appeal to religion poses many new questions that require humility and patience, and then the spouses decide to change everything at once - they leave the country. They are preparing for this for a long time, realizing that you need to go there with something. This is “something”-their secret, which no one of the relatives knows about. However, it is impossible to conceal themselves from oneself - in the end both understand this, but only after passing the “thin ice”.