The love of the heroes of the novel by Anatoly Rybakov - Rachel and Jacob - arose on the eve of the World War. For her sake, he moves from Switzerland to the USSR. They will have to go through the millstones of the twentieth century - suffering and hoping, losing loved ones and preparing for even greater losses... Published for the first time in “stagnant” times and with difficulty passing Soviet censorship, the novel became an event in the literary life of the country. The story of a Jewish family from southern Russia told by Rybakov town, into whose measured and dignified life the fascist “new order” burst in, revealed the tragedy of the entire Soviet people...