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At the end of the twentieth century, a strange patient with a surname that Americans find difficult to pronounce, Leontovych, dies in a nursing home in the United States. Who is this man? He called himself the brother of a famous Ukrainian composer - the real author of the Christmas song known worldwide as Carol of the Bells. Why is the authorship of this wonderful melody attributed to another person? The piece, called “Shchedryk”, written by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych, was first performed in 1916 in Kyiv. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Ukraine declared its independence, but was defeated in the war with Bolshevik Russia, and Soviet rule prevailed for a long time. In 1921, the composer Leontovych was murdered by the Chekists in his father's house under mysterious circumstances. The author of The Swallow Came invites the reader to find out the truth about the famous melody and puts forward her own version of the mysterious murder of the brilliant Ukrainian composer.