This modern novel, which preserves the best traditions of 20th-century literature, covers a wide range of historical and political events in which the Morvan family finds itself drawn. Love and passion, dizzying success and personal drama, hope and betrayal - in short, the whole gamut of human feelings the heroes of the novel are destined to experience. It would seem that under the wise leadership of Clara - the eldest in the family - they will successfully cope with all the adversities sent by fate. However, the secret that Clara keeps, like a time bomb, can at any moment blow up the united Morvan clan, the creation of which she dedicated her life.