2020 promised no trouble. But for a student of a medical institute, the virology department, Alexandra Kadochnikova, it became a starting point for a new life. The region’s health minister, invited as a lecturer, rages and takes out his unfulfilled dreams on the girl. For what does he hate her so much? You’ll find the answer in the novel about our time—about today. The world freezes. Why does the best always have to be bought with the price of great suffering…