This novel is just one week in the lives of different people. Each has their own story, but their fates are intricately intertwined into a single strange knot in the streets of St. Petersburg. Ali somehow magically ends up at a summit of leaders from forty countries, searching for his beloved, who was married off to a rich old man. Irek is a guide—an “at-home” intellectual boy from Nizhny Novgorod who has run away from his stepfather. And there’s also a writer, who unwittingly finds himself at the center of events unfolding around the mysterious youth organization Khush…
And only one week remains before a terrible event that can still be avoided…