The main character of the novel, Valentin Burkov, is a real man… Businesslike, decisive, affectionate. He can handle everything: business, fighting competitors, and standing up to villains who “hook” young people on drugs. Young women and mature ladies dream of marrying him. But it is precisely feminine charms that break Valentin’s prosperous fate and turn his life back…
In tragic May days of 2014, Valentin finds himself in a burning building of the House of Trade Unions in Odessa—and then chooses yet another ordeal: the Donbass…