About the book: 2024 / A woman with a child, doomed to starvation in the steppe, is saved by an old Kazakh man, Toleutai-ata. His two sons went to war, one of them received a “funeral”, and the second returned alive and was forced to marry the widow of his older brother, from whom, years later, he would hear a confession of sinful, in her opinion, love. The old man, who survived the death of his wife, children and grandchildren, is looking forward to a calm old age with his family, but his eldest son, a traitor who served in the Turkestan Legion, unexpectedly returns. Enmity breaks out between the brothers, rooted in distant childhood, and the old man’s youngest son decides to commit fratricide..