In his previous novel (Red Cross, 2017), Sasha Filipenko made extensive use of real historical documents. In his new work, the reality itself claims to be a document of the era. For the most distrustful: there is nothing invented here. There is a town where the city-forming enterprise is a prison. There is an orphanage, in the lives of its inhabitants a glimmer of happiness flashed. Situations, heroes, dialogues and even methods of police torture - everything is taken from life. And the damned question of the price of good, which for some reason turns into evil, is also posed by life. More precisely - by death. "Sasha Filipenko is one of those young authors who immediately became serious writers. If you want to know what modern young Russia is thinking about, read Filipenko" (Svetlana Alexievich).