The Sorcerer

The story “The Wizard” opens the cycle of works by Andrei Lazarchuk “Late for Summer.” A small picture of the life of a miller in a remote hamlet. Events take place somewhere far away; only the echo of a war running somewhere reaches the hamlet.
Slowly, the mill wheel turns, creaking. Water murmurs. Trees around rustle. Letters sometimes arrive. People arrive even more rarely. Despite the drought that kills everything alive, a strange garden grows and flourishes—wildly and cheerfully—toward the pond, a silent girl goes, who sometimes stops seeing the people around her; tension is building…
We gradually immerse ourselves in the atmosphere of the world of “Late for Summer,” which is so much like our own—and yet so unlike it.