During the New Year's Eve, dramatic events unfold in the very center of Makhachkala: several people enter into a confrontation with a large construction company, law enforcement agencies and the city administration, protecting a tree - the tallest beech in Europe, which must be cut down in order to build an office center in its place . Agree, there is something in this plot that is familiar to many... Will a handful of brave men manage to defend the tree and how will the lives of the heroes of the story - both positive and notorious villains - change in these few days? The new book by Islam Khanipaev - winner of the Lyceum literary award, finalist of the NOS and National Bestseller awards and winner of the reader's vote of the Yasnaya Polyana award for the story "Like Me" - is similar to a New Year's fairy tale: good, as prescribed by the laws of the genre , sometimes funny, and sometimes sad to the point of tears, but at the same time also bitingly ironic and merciless towards evil in all its manifestations.