Oleh Moskalenko

A young German girl Magda Homann was destined to fall victim to two World Wars at once, Kaiser's Germany and Tsarist Russia, the Hitlerite and Stalinist regimes. Having started a new German-Ukrainian history, she falls into the hands of the NKVD and her trail is mysteriously lost. But the search for Magda Homann by her German and Ukrainian grandson continues 70 years later.

The protagonist, Herman has to come back to his native Donbas after years spent away. He has to look into the case of his brother’s sudden disappearance. Herman meets real and unreal characters, his childhood friends and the local mafia. And suddenly, to his own surprise, he decides to stay in his native town with people who love and believe him and need his defense.

The digitizing of human souls means the nature of humanity itself changes in the future.

Having lost his oldest son in the war between Russia and Ukraine, Mustafa resolves to bring the boy’s body to the land of his birth: Crimea. Together, he and his younger son set out on a journey that will profoundly mark their relationship.