The Soviet government hid the disabled people of the last war for thirty years: legless, armless cripples were sent to Bogoyar Island. The abandoned monastery became their haven and refuge, their only native land in the middle of a deserted lake. But the state again showed concern: “to improve the maintenance,” they decided to move the boarding house to another place, and return the monastery on the island to the church. And the crippled front-line soldiers rebelled...