This is the first serious prose work written by a woman in the Circassian language. It traces the process of spiritual growth of a mountain woman. In his work, the author shows how reality itself transforms a person’s character, his psychology, his worldview; Moreover, the writer clearly reveals the internal reaction of the person himself to the events taking place. The life of Fatimat is not only the story of the formation of the character of one mountain woman, but also the story of the formation of an entire generation.