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This novel is the second book in a trilogy dedicated to the sons of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

The difficult political situation in which Ukraine found itself after the death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky required the closest possible consolidation of the Cossacks and the whole society around the institutions of hetman's power. However, the overwhelming majority of the ruling Cossack officers of that time failed to overcome the plebeianism syndrome and failed to rise above narrow institutional interests. Incited by aggressive neighbours, the officers divided into hostile groups that began a long struggle with each other; Yurii Khmelnytskyi played a role in this.

This struggle lasted for twenty years, until the Ukrainian land became a ruin and was divided by Poland and Turkey. And the younger Bohdan's son ended his life far from his native land, forgotten by everyone....

Oleksiy Pakhuchyi's novel tells the story of the past, but it is also relevant to the present, as the Ukrainian people are once again forced to defend their territory and independence.