The new book by Natalya Klyuchareva, the author of the acclaimed novels “Russia: Common Car” and “SOS”, includes the story “Village of Fools” and a series of essays “Wooden Sun”. The hero of the story, a young historian Mitya, decided to work as a rural teacher in the village Mitino. The village is like a village, and its inhabitants are ordinary - old-timers who remember the war, and the priest, and amorous high school girls, and the local harlot - Lyubka... And beyond the village, further away, there was a mysterious village of fools, which the locals were afraid to even think about. And Mitya had to face the real - unwritten - history...