A high-stakes psychological detective distinguished by vivid characters and expertly built intrigue.
By chance, a young journalist from Makhachkala ends up in a mountain village in Dagestan, where a brutal murder has just taken place. At first he is absorbed in investigating a terrible crime, but he gradually realizes how he is being pulled into the village’s gloomy, cold, and hostile atmosphere—as if it were covering up the killer.
This story doesn’t let the hero go for many years. It forces him not only to finally uncover the truth and solve the identity of the murderer, but also to deal with himself and his own life, in which so much has gone wrong.