About the book: 2020 / Gypsy theater actress, brilliant Nina Moldavanskaya, married to a GPU employee. Maxim Naganov’s love has been tested by time and trials, Nina is happy with him. The artist had not seen her nomadic relatives for many years. But in the hungry year of 1933, thousands of gypsies flocked to Moscow from all over Russia - blacksmiths and fortune tellers, horse traders and beggars, bandits and peaceful kotlyars... The leadership of the GPU decides to cleanse the Stalinist capital of the “nomadic element”. The development of the operation was entrusted to Nina’s husband. And, leaving Moscow on tour, the actress does not even realize what a threat hangs not only over the nomadic gypsies, but also over her grown-up daughters…