God, freedom - or are they forever deprived of it, because they are not like everyone else? And it's the 1960s. Nikita Khrushchev is still in power. And every day Soviet psychiatry faces difficulties that it cannot explain, treat or justify. Elena Kryukova’s novel about a Soviet mental hospital is a cry from the soul and silence of the heart, unbearable pain and unkilled faith. Russian and world writers have repeatedly addressed the topic of madness. The author is trying to lift the veil over the secrets of the human mind, but the main note in this dramatic symphony remains the note of sympathy, humanity, understanding.

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