Excellent knowledge of life is always an advantage for a writer, and Mikhail Kerbel knows what he writes about first-hand. His action-packed novel is dedicated to the events of the 70s of the last century that occurred in the south of multinational Ukraine, where pogroms and conflicts between Gypsies, Russians and Ukrainians, as well as the lawlessness of local authorities acquired unprecedented proportions. The romantic and talented young lawyer Mark from a provincial town finds himself at the epicenter of these events. A collision with a cruel accusatory system and the careerist aspirations of high-ranking officials dramatically breaks the fate of a young man. Danger, betrayal, love and the struggle for survival - all the components of a true drama hold the reader's attention from the first to the last page.