Regicide, civil war, eradication of sincere faith - the first steps into the darkness of the twentieth century - are observed by the Genevsky brothers. They are inspired, full of ideas and doubts. Their views from 1918 are still so different, but identical in one thing - young people believe in the bright future of the Russian star. The heroes of the novel travel a colossal path in the ranks of the Volunteer Army - from hope to doom, from love to death - in attempts to curb the darkness and drain the swamps of bloody reality. Following the pages of history, regularly based on true facts, experiencing battles, painful thoughts, intoxication with life - points that intersect the coordinates of the characters' destinies - we do not abandon the desperate hope for a different outcome of the vicissitudes of the past days. Trying again and again to understand where the “misfire” occurred, the reader lives through ten years of the life of the white movement in one breath.