A collection of stories and short stories, varied in theme: about love, the search for a path in life, the beauty of actions, real and imaginary self-affirmation. The "Bogoyar" trilogy tells about the fate of the inhabitants of the "disabled island". A poignant and dramatic story "Patience" is about a family Skvortsovs, who had long been planning to visit Bogoyar. Neither the husband nor the wife thought that in the peaceful wilderness of the northern landscapes of the island they would be overtaken and deafened by the echo of the unfulfilled... The “island” theme is continued by the story “A Trip to the Islands” about Solovki, which has become a symbol of traumatic historical memory.