“Father died. There are no words for how happy I am” - this is how this story begins. After the death of his father, Lucas Kletti becomes fabulously rich and also receives the only thing he has longed for all his life - the building of the old Printing House on the banks of the Thames. Over time, those “who need to be here” flock to the Printing House—those whom Lucas declares to be his family. People find shelter and consolation in him - and over time, Pechatnya turns into a new island of Utopia, an impregnable fortress, where, perhaps, the end of suffering will come. But no Utopia is eternal - and the dark harbingers of future horror and pain are already lurking in the corners. The gloomy family is invariably present at the endless celebration of life. A disgusting tramp watches over the inhabitants of the Seal. Human happiness is fragile, but as soon as it shatters in a shower of fragments, great literature begins. "Fingerprints" by Joseph Connolly, the story of a mysterious tycoon, a magnificent building and a handful of restless souls, is available in Russian for the first time.