The plot of this novel could well become an excellent prehistory of the famous trilogy of B. Crouch “The Pines”... A dazzling light that flashed in the night sky forever divided the life of an entire country into “before” and “after”, and all its inhabitants into those who I saw this unearthly beauty, and those who were sleeping peacefully. The former became ruthless killers, the latter their victims. And there is only one way out - to run wherever you look. This is exactly what Jack Kolklu, his wife and their two children are trying to do - escape from their hometown, engulfed in gunfire and fires. To escape to where there are still people who are not affected by the general madness, to where they can find protection. On this terrible path, many deadly dangers await them, one of which is their own little son. Unlike his parents and sister, he also saw that beautiful radiance...