Roman brings us back to the years of the Civil War. At the center of the story is the fate of a White Guard officer making a painful journey of knowledge in a world split by the revolution. Kornilov, Denikin, Wrangel - these are the stages of the agony of the white movement, of which Lieutenant Ivlev was a participant, who finally decided to stay in Russia in order to give himself to the court of the people against whom he fought.