ABSTRACT. As they say, nothing foreshadowed... Well, could I have thought that on the most important day, our wedding day, Max would simply dissolve, disappear from my life? "I was scared," my girlfriends whispered behind my back. "Run away “,” others giggled. “He hasn’t had enough of it,” his friends grinned. “He’ll come back wherever he goes,” the witnesses assured. “Kidnapped,” his relatives sighed, “I guess you have enough debts...” And only after spending his my own investigation, which led me to the Urals, I realized that everything is not so simple at all...