After the death of his young son and divorce from his wife, Paul Leibovitz cut himself off from people, preferring to live in solitude on a small island. Memories are all that now makes up Paul’s life; the rest has ceased to interest him. The situation changed after a chance acquaintance with an American woman who also lost her son. Paul could not refuse her help, because he has been living in China for thirty years and knows local customs and customs well. Forced to leave his carefully guarded world, Paul is reluctantly drawn into a murder investigation and gradually begins to realize how much he has lost. Paul reflects on the meaning of his existence, learns to love again, to trust not only his only friend, but also people in general. For the first time in Russian!