In the fall of 2006, Sergei Ermakov’s book “The Hour of Reckoning Cannot Be Changed” was published. In the original, the novel was called “Substitution,” which, in the author’s opinion, was more consistent with the content. The modest cleaning lady of the maternity hospital, Aunt Masha, is only simple at first glance. In fact, she turned out to be a very calculating and insidious person. She went ahead and replaced her newborn baby with a son from a rich family. Let, she decided, her own child grow up happily and not need anything. But she was wrong. Her stepson became a successful businessman, and the real one, despite his rich “parents,” ended up in jail. Moreover, a bloody trail of brutal crimes trails behind him. But you have to pay for everything in this life. The question is at what cost...