An ordinary PE teacher in the small provincial town of Verevkin, like most of the other townspeople, is concerned with everyday problems—family, work, personal life. But everything is cut short in an instant: her son dies, her husband is murdered… And Lena finds herself alone against drug barons and the FSB officials covering for them… But when a little person has nothing left to lose, she becomes dangerous to the very foundation of the criminal syndicate. A plague-polyphage is found that destroys poppy narcotics at the root… How many chances does a small woman have of winning a war against the drug mafia of the Golden Triangle?.. The Verevkin cycle: novellas and stories written at the turn of the century, whose incredible events take place in the town of Verevkin in the Tula region and its surroundings. But Verevkin is not the cheerful and good-natured Great Guslyar…