Translator Stanislava Novinskaya and former Red Army general Fyodor Trukhin, who became the chief of staff of Vlasov’s army, meet in Warsaw in 1943. Camps for captured Soviet officers, complex military-political maneuvers around the creation of the ROA, life in Russian Berlin during the war and many other circumstances , little-known and previously not touched upon in fiction - all this is the background of the way of the cross that the heroes go through in order to understand that they are the only ones for each other. The novel uses unique materials from archives, including personal, unpublished letters of German officers and the latest articles on the history of the Vlasov movement, the description of which the author approaches with extreme objectivity, avoiding established propaganda and counter-propaganda cliches.