In this book, consisting of two completely different stories, one thread can be traced - the betrayal of their people by the powerful elite, who call themselves saviors and guardians of their fatherland, but these arbiters of our destinies do not have a fatherland, as well as a fatherland, since they they do not remember their kinship. The book may seem overly pessimistic and the fates of the people described in it are hopeless, but this is not at all true if one of the characters can directly address the president with the words: “Mr. President...”