This is a continuation of the most bitter and desperate Russian novel of recent years - “Odessans” by Irina Ratushinskaya... The first generation of “Odessans” has grown up. The daughters of the murdered nobles became the “society ladies” of the Stalin era, and the sons of the long-suffering inhabitants of the Jewish quarters became the furious “builders of the new world.” And - another generation of children of “Odessa-Mama” appeared. A generation of children who miraculously survived the war and occupation. A generation of desperately brave boys and girls, who in the days of grief and trouble knew that THEY CAN’T SURVIVE WITHOUT ANOTHER. But will this principle of survival be useful to them, who are already grown up? And what could be, as they say in Odessa, a “correctly placed heart” in the era of the fifties and sixties? A gift of goodness - or an obstacle to survival? The fate of the “heirs of the minefield” of World War II is difficult...