Майже ніколи не навпаки (М. Матіос)

The family saga in the short stories "Almost never the other way around" by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios is not inferior to her famous "Sweet Darusa" in terms of skill of writing and depth of presentation.

"It is not time that counts, but a person in the circumstances of time" - the writer reveals this thesis through the dramatic history of several Hutsul families during the First World War. The great passions of ordinary people, the light delusion of mysticism, the eternal dilemmas of Love-Hate, Sin-Atonement, a multi-layered plot...

Each character in this unusual drama has an undeniable alibi, an unchallenged truth and their own courts of honor. And therefore, he has the right to do things that cannot be predicted by any logic or written law. The laws of honor conflict with the laws of the heart, for it has always been so, and almost never the other way around.