How do we combine the incompatible? How do you find the proper intonation? How could one woman keep such an unbridled human anthill, such a grandiose and very complex mechanism - the theater - in her hands? Galina Volchek and the theater "Sovremennik" led by her, as well as everything related to it, are not just the local history of a separate theater. No, this is a global phenomenon in the cultural environment of our country, which, perhaps, has not been thoroughly studied but resonates with the present.