Those who meet an inarticulate homeless man, wearing unseasonable sandals on his bare feet, grow wings. The lucky ones who got the opportunity to fly like birds - they are also victims who suddenly became armless - are middle-aged men. Whether in the capital or in the outback, their life is still an adventure and a hassle. The winged ones are hunted by hunters, they are persecuted by the competent authorities, they are trying to be drawn into political actions and harnessed into a semi-criminal business, and their relatives lose their nerve. The only desired way out is to fly over the border and find freedom in the skies over the endless steppes of Mongolia... The novel has been nominated for the Big Book and NOS awards.