When people love each other, but cannot be together, they change. Love merges with pain, and both permeate every day, every minute of their lives. Lena and Lenya are connected forever, but Lena has a family, and Lenya is considered missing. The world in which they live is turned into a terrible fairy tale: in it, old people stop dying, and children are forced to hand them over to terrible “gerontozoria” among forests and swamps... will the missing Lena be able to resurrect in the impassable thickets? A fairy tale novel, a novel- a parable, this book is both about love and about the fact that there are things more important than love, but not possible without it.