This book is a journey into the childhood of five boys and girls from different regions of Ukraine at the end of the XIX century. It opens up a world of rituals, words and things that once seemed familiar in the Hutsul region and Bukovina, Polesie, Podillia and Naddnipryansk region. The story begins with the cutting of the umbilical cord by a midwife and ends with several high-profile Ukrainian weddings. The authors combine artistic narration with ethnographic material and show how traditions were formed under the influence of place, faith, language and family system, how different they were and how urbanization influenced the transformation of social roles. "Delo ditoche" is not nostalgia for the past, but an attempt to understand it. After reading, you will see how your great-grandparents lived, and perhaps you will recognize something of your own in them.