In the new novel by Booker Prize winner Mikhail Shishkin, the action takes place at different times and in different countries: this is Russia during the Civil War, and today's Europe, and even ancient Persia. The fate of the heroes of the story intersect, sprout into each other, they are led through life by love - happy, dramatic, different. "If there was love, nothing can make it unprecedented" - this is the main leitmotif of the novel, which won the National Bestseller Award.