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The tragic and happy fate of the intelligentsia... To be highly valued by society de jure and at the same time to be humiliated and persecuted de facto, not rising above the definition of "stratum". To be tempted by bribery: sometimes successfully, sometimes not...

But also to be unbreakable at all times, pulling oneself, like Baron Munchausen by the scruff of the neck, and one's people out of the stinking swamp of spirituality and degradation. According to Malaniuk, "Self-sufficient children" are truly a gift from Heaven. This novel is about the amazing and diverse fates of the intelligentsia in the middle of the hellish twentieth century, including the founder of the UPA Taras Bulba-Borovets and the commander of the UNA Pavlo Shandruk.