Юрий Korotkov’s plot-driven novellas became bestsellers. Famous films were made based on them: “Accident, Daughter of a Cop,” “Wild Love,” “Abrek,” and others.
The action takes place in a Siberian village, faithfully hidden from people and civilization in the most remote taiga corner. An artist known as Begun buys and sells rare icons. By chance, he learns that in Siberia, in the small village of Beloozero, there is a church where a very valuable icon, “Jesus the Spas, Yarooye Oko” (“The Savior, the Burning Eye”), is kept. Begun and his partner decide to go to Siberia and steal the icon...