The courtyard is promised. Kotlyar A.

the courtyard, called the "draft", is the main attraction of Odessa. In one of these courtyards, an amazing woman lives - Berta Solomonovna Botsman, who considers herself "a great encyclopedia of Jewish life and life in general." Berta Solomonovna recalls all the funny and sad stories of this “draft”, where everyone has long ceased to be just neighbors, but became truly relatives. The Odessa courtyard is not a specific place, but a huge part of the big and loving Jewish soul of Aunt Bati. Her refuge, her "promised land."