History only seems unshakable. In fact, the mysterious Lethe flows not from the present to the past, but from the past to the future - exposing the roots of events, making the secret obvious. Only today, when the steel doors of the special storage facilities and Lubyanka safes were opened, did it become possible to reveal one of the most mysterious crimes of the communist regime - the murder of the great artist, artistic director of the Moscow Jewish Theater, chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of the USSR Solomon Mikhoels. The novel is based on numerous archival documents, testimonies of participants in the events and eyewitnesses. The author makes a convincing attempt to answer the question: why Stalin killed Mikhoels.