"Dreams of Ocimum Basilicum" is the story of a meeting that is only destined to happen. A novel in which reality turns out to be hardly more important than dreams, and coincidences and accidents become the work of a practicing witch. New from Shirin Shafieva, winner of the Russian Prize, author of the novels “Salsa, Spindle and Greenwich Zero” and “Don’t Sleep Under the Fig Tree” "It was a strangely cold and rainy October. Altai disappeared during filming, smoked a lot and looked for gold under an old mulberry tree, as the ghost of his mother told him. He is haunted by debts and gossip, but most of all by dreams and a girl whom he seems to have never met. But he will definitely meet you. And on the Hill, the witch Reyhan lays out cards, brews healing ointments and decides the destinies of people. Visitors believe in a miracle, and the girl does not tell them that it is impossible to cast a love spell and make a person fall in love - you can only arrange for him a chance meeting with the one he loves. Her meeting has already happened. But not in life, but in a dream. And now she is trying to find the man who leaves her with the first rays of the sun. She will continue to look for him, even when the sea invades the room, flights over the city stop, and the walls of the old tunnel begin to press on all sides. And she will find him.