This is not just an action-packed and exciting detective story, interesting to readers of any age, it is a real historical immersion into time. The young heroine, who has lost all her loved ones, even those whom she did not know during her waking life, and who feels a connection with the dead and gone, enters into a deadly confrontation with the killer. She cannot turn to friends who sincerely love her for help; only she alone can find the truth and destroy the maniac. A fragile sixteen-year-old girl with a long braid, with each new turn of the fascinating plot, with each cut strand of hair, becomes an increasingly formidable warrior, breaking all stereotypes and all barriers. She runs on a razor's edge, and the reader remains in unrelenting tension throughout the novel. Sasha is waging a real psychological war-investigation, a cruel and uncompromising game with death, deliberately exposing herself to another fatal blow. She is killed, but she gets out of endless traps again and again, each time becoming stronger from the inside, breaking down her internal barriers, moving towards the multi-part goal that she must achieve in order to save the lives of others and find the truth. The time of the Soviet Union has not yet passed, with its pioneer camps, shortages, naivety or permissiveness for those in power. The action takes place in an elite pioneer camp near a closed Siberian city, of which there were quite a lot at that time, but about which little was known even at that time. Together with the characters, the reader is immersed in the history of a country that is now almost forgotten, but this makes the events, told by an eyewitness in every detail, become even more interesting and entertaining. Children's and sports camps located along the wide riverbed of the Yenisei and Mana, the magnificent nature of Siberia, the famous Red Pillars are the scene of action. But who deprived Sasha of his family and home then, in fifty-four? How are the mysterious Old Believers who served the White Mother, with their faith in Gelen Amu, connected with the KGB purges and uranium mines? What kind of connection does little Sasha, who lost both her mother and grandfather in mysterious circumstances, have with his sister, her copy, and those innocent young girls who died for thirty years and were not found? “...I’m dragging a load that’s too big for me and too big for me, and I don’t even try to avoid this punishment that’s not my own, I just want to have time to fix as much as possible, but how can I fix this?”