A deep philosophical reflection on the unique, inimitable trace that every person leaves on the great path of life.
María Цзян’s family emigrated from China to Canada and settled in Vancouver. Here, after her father’s suicide, Mari with her mother sorts through his papers and gradually plunges into an astonishing, cruel, and bloody story of the People’s Republic of China — from the civil war and the Cultural Revolution to the events in Tiananmen Square. The fate of three generations of Mari’s family becomes tightly linked with the fate of another emigrant’s family — Ai Ming. The events of the present and the past overlap, and the work gradually becomes a vast epic saga about the lives of people thrown into the merciless gears of great changes, grand achievements, and great hopes.