Love, death, the continuation of life - the theme of the trilogy "Epiphany," which tells about the fate of the inhabitants of the "disabled" island. The stories and stories of Yu. Nagibin are imbued with lyricism and irony, philosophical generalizations. The book is based on the story of disabled war veterans, as they were called on the island "stumps" or "samovars," whose bodies were mutilated by the war, but did not touch the soul. This is how they live, some without a hand, some without a leg. One and a half people in total for two. And on this island of Bogoyar on weekends there are excursions, they bring tourists who want to go to the Vaamsky monastery, and on the pier on a wooden quadrangular tray with wheels a resident of the Valaam monastery is waiting for them with his own craft. These from the mainland, sleek, sleeved and leggy, come to wash away the dope of carelessness and look at the bodies twisted by the war.