Olga Gromova's book was written by her from the words of Stella Nudolskaya, whose childhood fell in the late 30s - early 40s in the Soviet Union. This is a very personal and heart-warming story about how five-year-old Elya, happily growing up in a loving family, suddenly turns out to be the daughter of an "enemy of the people" and finds herself in a terrible, incomprehensible world when, after the arrest of her father, she and her mother are sent to a labor camp in Kyrgyzstan. But despite all the trials, hunger and diseases that they have to go through, Elya and her mother do not lose heart: they sing songs, joke, really care about each other. "Sugar Baby" is in many ways a "novel of upbringing", a story about love, and also about what dignity is and what freedom is.