What happens if you realise the best part of your life is gone, never to return?

In the godforsaken provincial town of Ostrog in Russia, a series of teenage suicides in the orphanage shakes up the community. Inspector Alexander Kozlov, from Moscow, is supposed to be leading the investigation, but the local police have their own theories. When Petya, a misfit who cares deeply about nature, gets arrested, Kozlov doesn’t believe he’s guilty. But why did Petya get so agitated when the Mayor of Ostrog had wanted to gift the orphans a holiday in Greece?

Inspired by a true story: a philosophical crime novel by one of the »most exciting authors in the Russian language« (News, Vienna).