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The OST trilogy by Ulas Samchuk (1905-1987) includes the novels Moroziv Khutir, Darkness, and Escape from Myself. The events of Moroziv Khutir take place from Christmas 1918 to Easter 1919, during a difficult and disturbing period of Ukrainian history. The characters of the book are looking for answers to the pressing questions of their time and the "eternal" questions: about the revolution, Ukrainian statehood, language, culture, and art. Here, the farm is a symbol of the established, traditional world. The destruction of the Ukrainian hamlet meant the destruction of the Ukrainian soul.

The events of The Darkness cover the period from the Civil War to the beginning of the Second World War. Darkness is everything terrible, tragic, dark that the Soviet regime brought - war, famine, mass political trials, the Gulag . Although not physically or mentally broken, he is forced to cooperate with the Soviet authorities. To survive in the new conditions, he proves to be a capable, proactive businessman, but remains a hostage of a totalitarian state that grinds everyone and everything.