They’ll film a TV series based on my novels again! Me, the writer Arina Violova, known in that world as Viola Tarakanova, was invited to attend the filming. And with pleasure I went to a little town with a funny name, Gidrozavod! The moment I settled into the house of the Nikolayevs, where they received me almost like family, a series of quite strange events began. All of a sudden… Katya Nikolayeva died—she ate a gingerbread pastry bought for her grandmother. Who, who, and for what purpose wanted to poison whom? Obviously one of the household must have “tried.” And what do “push-tans,” a people that had almost disappeared from the face of the earth, have to do with it? So here I am again, writer Arina Violova, finding myself at the center of a novel that hasn’t even been written yet. And you can’t invent in a book conflicts like the ones life sometimes creates…