A peculiar family saga written “back in time.” First comes the story of a modern girl, then her mother and aunts, then her grandmother and great-grandmother—and then even deeper into the past. An old icon, split into two, binds all fates with a single thread. And there’s also a children’s counting rhyme. Everything is just beginning: Lisa hides from her unhappy love in a Belarusian sanatorium and there meets an unfamiliar relative.