At a market in a southern city, a boy named Issa meets merchants. Merchants with a caravan travel across Asia. They take the boy with them on a long journey: the boy wants to see distant countries. Two millennia later, a man lives in the frosty taiga of Siberia, in Irkutsk. He is already old, he went through the Afghan war. Doctors tell him he won't live long. And he decides to make the last pilgrimage to the lake of his childhood - to his dearly beloved Baikal. Shortly before leaving home, the old man attended an organ concert. The music that the young organist played changed his soul. Having already gotten ready for the journey, standing in front of the mirror, he sees not the old man Vasily, but a barefoot young man in an old cloak, with a knapsack over his shoulders... What will happen to Issa and Vasily on their long journey? What incredible events and adventures await them? Snowy peaks of the Himalayas, the Indian Mother of Beasts, battles and betrayals, secret tears and great love... What price does a person pay to achieve the Light? Elena Kryukova's novel is based on the famous apocrypha about the journey of the young Jesus to Asia - to India, the Himalayas and Tibet..