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In the spring of 1933, the famine in Machukhachs reaches its apotheosis. The first cannibalism, lynchings, mental disorders against the background of malnutrition. The village degrades. People, driven to despair, lose their humanity, they are ready to eat anything to survive. And now two women who do not know each other, two victims of their time, two opposite sides of the great darkness called hunger, find themselves at arm's length... Young Yavdokha, sighted at the level of madness, and Solia, holy blindness. One is killed by hunger, the other is saved. One promises an eternal night, the other gives hope for a happy rebirth. And they don't know that they are walking towards each other. They are walking to finally embrace each other and build a fragile bridge over the insatiable anthill of their tormentors... WHY THIS BOOK A deep psychological novel about one of the most difficult pages of Ukrainian history - the Holodomor of 1933. It subtly shows different human destinies against the backdrop of the tragedy - the fate of both victims and executioners. The novel won the third prize of the Coronation of the Word competition in 2021. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tanya Pyankova was born in Ivano-Frankivsk region. She is a poet and prose writer. She is the author of three poetry collections, the novels Krolivna, The Sun in the Hem, and Other People's Sins. Co-founder and creative director of the Zillya Literary Agency; organiser of festivals, creative literary and artistic events, performances, and theatrical readings. Together with the poet Vasyl Kuzan, she founded the "Series of Bright Literature", which has already published an anthology of women's poetry "Mint" and an anthology of men's poetry "Ginger". She is engaged in acrylic painting on fabric, has created a collection of author's wreaths, and collects authentic dolls.