A new editor-in-chief of an Orthodox newspaper arrives in the city of Yellow Sands. He is temporarily placed to live with a dying man - Vera. Until recently healthy, energetic and purposeful, she can’t come to terms with her illness, tries to understand why all this is happening to her, looks for answers to the eternal questions of life and death... And finally finds them. In parallel, in the style of the monk Barnabas (Sanina ), a historical layer unfolds, which tells how, at the cost of their lives, the ancient Romans saved the Holy Books for their communities and for all subsequent generations - that is, for us. This book is about salvation and the path to it, about the fact that a person even even the most seemingly hopeless illness can be healed by Eternity.