This is an automatically translated description

"Perekhresni stizhki" - one of the most famous works of Ivan Frank. This text is a clever combination of detective story and civil-political novel.

The story centres on a young lawyer Evgeny Rafalovich, who arrives in a small Galician village and becomes a people's protector. There he meets the love of his youth. But the former lover is in the pasture of an unfortunate whore with a sadistic man: oppression and humiliation last for years, and the wife, not having the strength to escape, in the end she decides to kill him. And it will be only the beginning of the events that will destroy the sleepy little town.

Franco blots out the psychological images and deep motivation of the characters, and in parallel with the development of the plot masterfully shows the choice of the protagonist - to try to find a way out of the closed circle, where the weak always lose, and the lightweight become victims of shahrystvo and manipulation.