Wise old woman dwelling among books and silence. Brutal communist living so long the century in Israel shelter. Quadragenarian American - allegedly safe, but crippled by remembrances. German, for the sake of expiation of guilt of the people working in christian community under Хайфой. Catholic nun, now Orthodox попадья finding itself on Saint Earth. Israel radical, unstable teenager sad arab-christian, specialist on иудаике. Large politics and private life. The USA, Israel, Poland, Lithuania, Russia. And in a center this separate and however desperately the single world is a jew, former "mole" in Gestapo, former partisan, now - catholic priest. Man, whose life explains how people living until now, however sank itself in a hatred and pain. New novel of Ljudmila Улицкой - about wandering of spirit in darkness of the world, about that, how every searches and finds light around and in itself. About Даниэле Руфайзене - man, with whosesoever life no literature is not able to vie. About a man that till a closing date stayed merciful soldier.