A new incurable disease has gripped the world. It only affects children. There are more and more patients, and hospices, where they try to alleviate their suffering, begin to close. Doctors, a priest, children and their parents are locked there, as if in a fortress…

The hope to defeat a terrible disease comes from an unexpected direction, but the eternal questions - why suffering is needed and whether it is humanly possible to reduce them - remain with everyone .

“Only by showing everything honestly, without sparing retouching, you have the right to say that from any abyss there is always a path to the light.”

Ruslan Kozlov

“It turned out powerful prose, which it was vital for the author to write. You won't be able to forget this book. Whether you will continue to live after it, I don’t know.”

Dmitry Bykov