This novel is one week in the life of different people. Each of them has their own story, but their destinies are intricately intertwined into one strange knot on the streets of St. Petersburg. Ali miraculously ends up at a summit of leaders of forty states in search of his beloved, who was married off to a rich old man. Irek is a tour guide and intellectual “homey” boy from Nizhny Novgorod who ran away from his stepfather. And also a writer who unwittingly found himself at the center of events that unfolded around the mysterious youth organization Khush... And - there is only a week left before a terrible event that can still be avoided...