In a remote corner of Polesie, on the Kachai-Boloto farm, former traitors Pyotr Sachok and Gabriel Fokin, the leaders of the Pentecostal sect, built their nest. The mother of pioneer Sasha Shcherbinin fell into the black web of sectarianism. Sasha cannot put up with this, but he is almost powerless: a serious illness has confined him to bed. The story tells about how reliable a friend’s shoulder is in difficult times, how the fresh wind of our life tears to shreds the web of obscurantism and fanaticism.