The first part of Stanislovas Rubinovas' autobiographical book, "In the Forest", was written almost sixty years after World War II. The father of the Jewish boy was shot by the Germans in Ponary in 1941, and he and his mother faced the same fate, so they fled from Vilnius. They spent three endlessly difficult years wandering through the forests of western Belarus. They were hungry, hid for months, ran from place to place, and lived for long periods in damp holes they had dug themselves. Sometimes kind people helped them, and sometimes they barely managed to escape from those who wanted to hand them over to the Germans. The whole region was gossiping about "a woman with a boy", for whose capture the Germans promised a considerable sum of money. They hid in the forests in the summer and in the winter cold, crossed the river at night on crumbling ice floes, tore off handfuls of lice with frozen fingers and tried not to scratch the festering sores. So day after day... The author, who had kept the secret for many years, finished this text and confessed: "And only now - I came out, truly CAME OUT OF THE FOREST." The second part, "On Stage," is not a continuation of the dramatic story. After the war, Rubinovas graduated from the conservatory, became a singer, and during several decades of his theatrical career he witnessed and participated in many interesting events. "These short stories are genuine, often curious incidents, which I witnessed or participated in," he writes. Indeed, these notes are full of humor, self-irony, and optimism. Tours, trips, performances, rehearsals. Meetings with famous people: actors, soloists, composers, directors, writers, artists. These bright, cheerful, and relaxed memories reveal the cultural panorama of those years. In the story about others, Rubinovas introduces us to the details of his creative path.