Times repeat themselves, sometimes they come full circle. The heroes of the work—our contemporaries and people who lived many centuries ago—are trying to find the right path in an era of change. The legend is told about an artist who sought truth in Ancient China, about the Byzantine emperor’s favorite book found during the sack of Constantinople in 1453, and about the I Ching, which tries to provide answers to all life’s questions. The work offered to the reader is about those who survived the collapse of the great empires (Byzantium, Tsarist Russia and the USSR), about those who have lost faith in a better future and are looking for a new idea that allows them to live in times of dramatic change. Their destinies and thoughts have a lot in common. Reversal of times.