A novel that has been compared to Room by M. Donohue, The Light Between Oceans by M. Stedman, and The Lovely Bones by E. Sebold. Let's meet Carmel, an eight-year-old girl who loves the color red, funny stories, and adores your mother. One day they go together to a fairy tale festival - an event that Carmel has long dreamed about. But this trip turns into tragedy. That's how it was: making her way through the dense fog and pushing passers-by with her small hands, she suddenly realized that she was lost. It was then that he appeared in front of her - a man in round glasses, a mysterious ghost from nowhere. And the child disappeared, disappeared for many years. All this time they were looking for her - the police, her relatives. Meanwhile, Carmel lived in fear and hoped for only one thing - one day to return home and hug her mother.