In this book, following the heroes of the novel "Vangol," the author reveals the post-war fate of Kolsha, who returned after incredible travels to the native banks of the great Siberian Yenisei River. Brought up in an Old Believer village, having gone through the purgatory of war, he intends to restore his village burned down by the NKVD. In the postwar years, Siberia was literally crammed with camps and exiles. It was there that all the pain of the survivor of all wars and deprivation of the Russian people was now concentrated. Japanese and German prisoners of war, Italians and Romanians, traitors of all stripes, Vlasovites and Bandera, "forest brothers" from the Baltic states, Finns, Chechens and Ingush, repressed in 1944, men and women, children of enemies of the people - all this terrible human whirlpool was spinning in the vast space of Siberia. Kolsha got into it... How he survived and found himself in this life, and the author tells.