Maxim Matkovsky's novel is surprisingly in tune with our time. It is about the eternal expectation of a miracle in the slums, about people living somewhere between hell and the “Delicious” grocery store, hanging halfway from everyday life to eternity... The “truth of life”, well known to many, is superbly presented in the novel through different facets of folklore, including including urban and children's. These are the familiar “Black Hand” or “Red Sheet”. But Matkovsky’s modern horror story has its own name – “The Secret Sea.”