For many years, I considered a simple fisherman from Erollya to be my father, and his wife to be my mother. I didn’t understand why she hated me so much—her daughter. But one day, which turned our lives upside down, everything fell into place. Dakhanns came to our village—grim, mysterious, impenetrable, and extremely dangerous. They hide their faces behind masks and take our girls away into nowhere. This time the lot fell to my sister, but her place was taken by me.