Two artists—two destinies. In the past, the best friends Mikhail Kamov and Alexander Kaminga meet again after many years of separation in Jerusalem. Their journey begins even earlier—in the underground bohemian Leningrad of the 1950s, where beautiful women preach free love, and even a KGB colonel becomes a fervent fan of progressive art.
One artist will become a boring conformist, while the other will preserve faith in creativity and defeat boredom—proving that it is much more important to truly be than to seem.
This novel is written in the spirit of Dina Rubina’s best works and has a long “aftertaste” of truly high-quality prose!