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The main character of the novel is twelve-year-old Stas, who lives with his parents and sisters in Yeysk on the Azov Sea. Although he is still a child, he is drawn into the millstones of history. The brutal reality after the Bolshevik Revolution is frightening. Soviet Russia in the early 1920s is a place of constant war, cruelty and poverty. Street vendors and outlaw adventurers become inseparable friends here.

But the most ominous reality cannot dampen the youthful joy of life. Stas and the other characters enter adulthood, when everything is still possible, friendship and imagination do not draw boundaries, and the fascination with newly discovered sexuality comes into conflict with a deeply rooted moral sense.

Living historical realities pulsate in the novel about a young Pole from Jeysk, and autobiographical motifs dissolved in it fill this story with sincere emotions. In his novel cycle, Łobodowski used his childhood memories to depict the colourful world of Cossacks, Armenians, Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, Orthodox and Catholics.