A family of Russian emigrants. Three generations. Different characters and destinies - and the same courage to meet your love halfway, even if it is love-sin, love-hunger, love-drug. Love, which is interspersed with real hunger, real drugs, the horror of wars and revolutions. But the heroes of the novel are ready to be responsible for their own choices. They not only think intensely about whether God leaves a person who finds himself on the very edge, and what to do with the thirst for his forbidden and boundless “I”. They are able to see an angel who also looks at them - both on the border between life and death, and from under the dome of the temple, and through the eyes of loved ones.