No one on our earth can say who they really are.
The main character is a genius for forgery who is in love with painting. He’s a falsifier with the soul of a true artist. He’s an adventurer, yet noble—like Robin Hood of the arts; he is an extraordinarily intellectual and charming swindler.
The adventurous fate of Zahar Cordovin shows the plot of his life as an exciting thriller. Events follow one another, not allowing the reader to get distracted. Jerusalem and Rome, Vinnytsia and St. Petersburg, Cordoba, Toledo, and the Vatican are depicted by the author with astonishing precision of details and true, ringing beauty.