The Great Patriotic War. Leningrad blockade. The Medvedev family faces the most difficult trials in life, a series of gains and losses, they will have to experience the boundless strength of spirit and experience a lot of grief. This book is about human strength and weakness, about self-sacrifice and female love, which arises as a curse or a blessing, breaks ties with loved ones and destroys hope for the future, but helps to survive the war against a cruel enemy, because it gives a loving woman colossal strength. The life of the novel’s heroes, like the lives of millions of people, fits into the historical framework of the existence of the Soviet state. “The lot of righteous sinners. Return" is the third and final part of the saga of Natalia Nesterova.