The novel takes place in the 1970s. The intrigue in one way or another affects the fate of a vast gallery of characters, each with their own mysterious and dramatic history, their torments, delusions, their vices and passions. Beginning as a stylized story of betrayal and revenge, the plot overcomes the thresholds of detective collisions and gradually enters the mainstream of the completely earthly , even naturalistic realism and, having led the reader through the physical and mental suffering of the characters, when it already seems that everyone is doomed and there is no way out, suddenly takes a new turn.