The boiling, inescapably musical Odessa family and - the Alma-Ata family of secretive, silent wanderers... For a century they have been connected only by a thin thread of a bird kind - the brilliant maestro kenar Zheltukhin and his descendants. At the end of the 20th century, a chaotic story settles with bitter and sweet memories, and new people are born, including "the last Etinger in time," which is destined for an amazing, and at times suspicious fate. The Russian Canary trilogy is a grand saga of love and Music in one volume.