Maria Rybakova, who entered literature with a landmark novel in verse “Gnedich,” continuing her path with a story about Nika Turbina and a piercing saga of love between nature’s elements and human beings, now shows the reader a love drama set against the backdrop of a complicated adultery in Budapest and Delhi. Love for a married man paradoxically pushes the heroine into marriage with an unloved man. Is he not loved? Colors get mixed, emphasis shifts—and life takes its own even where, it seemed, nothing remains… A story about a woman’s soul at a crossroads.