Uvlekatelnaya kinematografichnaya semeynaya saga, kazhdyy povorot syuzheta kotoroy priblizhaet geroev k raskrytiyu davnikh tayn. Roman okhvatyvaet neskolko postsovetskikh desyatiletiy, vklyuchaya epokhu rastsveta prigranichnoy torgovli mezhdu Rossiey i Kitaem, i proslezhivaet, kak postupki roditeley vliyayut na zhizn ikh detey. V etom romane kazhdyy personazh - zveno v tsepi sobytiy, gde lyubov, predatelstvo, alchnost i samopozhertvovanie perepletayutsya s misticheskimi predchuvstviyami i sluchaynymi vstrechami, kotorye stanovyatsya tochkami nevozvrata dlya kazhdogo. Eto razmyshlenie o tom, kak nevidimye niti sudby svyazyvayut lyudey, kak geny i nasledstvo proshlogo opredelyayut vybor i kak pravda nakhodit dorogu k svetu, menyaya zhizni navsegda.