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In this book, the reader will find a three-dimensional picture of the Kolyma and partially Siberian camps of the early postwar period. Its author is an educated Austrian who accidentally found himself in the cauldron of the Gulag. Not suffering because of the loss of Soviet ideals, Vernon Kress feels like a chronicler, an objective witness. He sees the wired world through the eyes of a Westerner. Without avoiding suffering, the narrator - an optimist and romantic by nature - tries to tell not only how people died in the camp, but also how they survived there. In his story, the author himself notes the "spirit of the Schweikiada" for a reason: the light intonations of humour make "Ze-Cameron" similar to "Decameron". At the same time, the overlap of these titles contains bitter sarcasm, a reminder of the tragic contrast between the Renaissance and the cruel XX century.