1991 August. A bronze idol was dumped on Lubyanka, and many people think that a new country is being born here and now. In these euphoric days, an ordinary Soviet teenager receives an unusual gift - a family history secretly written by his grandmother. This story will amaze him twice. The first time he realizes how much he didn’t know, why he grew up like a wild man. And the second time is when he understands that not everything has been told, that memoirs are just a way to hide the absence of one link among many facts: who was his grandfather, his father’s father, a man never mentioned, “crossed out” from the text. An attempt to unravel this the secret will become fate. And fate will lead you to the former camps of Kazakhstan, to the warring Caucasus, and will force you to look for nameless prisoners of the previous era and those missing in a new war, fueled by long-standing hatred. He will be bound by blood and guilt. Only by repeating someone else’s fate to the end will he understand who his grandfather was. He will understand in August 1999...