The author of the book, Evgenia Fedorova, wanted to become a children's writer, but ended up in Stalin's camps. As a result, the literary fruits of her life are associated with very adult and scary themes of a totalitarian society. She experienced all the horrors of the Gulag, and that is why her story about the inexorable hellish political machine that grinds the destinies of people, forces them to betray loved ones, and separates mothers from their children, is so vivid and sincere. This book is a true story of people who faced the inexorable cruelty of the state machine, but at the same time found the strength not to give up.