A novel whose protagonist is Jerusalem. It is difficult to find books in Israeli literature that are as inextricably linked with the soul and living flesh of this unique city as the books of Shahar, who was awarded not only Israeli literary prizes for them, but also the Medici and Commander of the French Order of Arts - the highest awards of France awarded for works of foreign literature. Behind the realistic narrative, the attentive reader opens up other plans and secret meanings rooted in the Kabbalistic tradition, in the mystical-symbolic vision of the world. Such a complex space-time conglomerate in reality is Jerusalem - at the same time a really tangible and elusive ghostly city, not amenable to generalization and not subject to general laws.