1969th, New York. In Lower east Side a rumor spread about appearance of mysterious fortune-teller that is able to predict the day of death. Four young Голдов, from seven to thirteen years, decide to know a coming fate. When a turn reaches to Вари senior, a fortune-teller, glancing on her palm, talks: "With you thing come right, you will die in 2044. Outside Варю gloomy brothers and sister wait for. In subsequent decades prophecies begin to come true. The fates of children will appear whimsical. Simon Голд will run in San Francisco, where with a head will dive in bohemian life. Clara after meeting with a fortune-teller with every year all deeper will submerge in dreams, wishing to overcome a verge between fantasy and reality. Дэниэл will become a military doctor, and life he will conduct measure, while a the same fate will not interfere. Варя will devote to the study of problem of immortality, balancing between science and by fiction. Surprizing depth novel about connection of inevitability and freedom of choice, about interlacing of illusion and reality, about force of domestic connections and forces their tearing.A book contains an unprintable bad language.