Dirty soil sticks to your shoes, and the air is filled with the animal smell of a farm that has been owned by the same family for almost a century. If you are close to nature, you become more humane and begin to understand it better. But something else can happen - you can go wild, forget how to feel, become hardened. Like members of this very family, who are so mired in hatred, cruelty not only towards each other, but also towards animals, that they are moving towards inevitable destruction. A great novel about the drift of humanity. Its paradox is that people who strive to dominate nature with all their might, in this merciless struggle reveal all their savagery and brutality. The novel “SALT”, published earlier in Russian, amazed readers and caused a mixed reaction.