He has no name and no past. He knows how to live only in the present. Wolves taught him—among whom his childhood and youth passed… A she-wolf, who happened to find an extremely tiny infant during migration, managed to give a second life to the human creature, so that he became part of a wolf pack. Together they hunt, take care of one another, avoid traps set by hunters, and simply live—live the way many civilized people have forgotten: with an open heart toward the world.
But one day that heart is painfully wounded—deprived of its most precious thing: a mother in wolf form. Hunters from a helicopter mercilessly shoot the wolves, returning not some fairy-tale “Mowgli” into the stuffy cities…
Ahead lies a clinic, flight from physical pain, and one of the first two-legged friends—turned out, on closer inspection, to be a traitor. Will the one who was born human but became a wolf in spirit be able to break free? Can he survive the death of his native pack and not go mad in a psychiatric clinic? The end of this story can no longer be rewritten, because the wolf cub chose his fate to become himself. And fate chose him to save…