About the book: 2022 / Mikhail Turbin was born in 1986 in Veliky Novgorod. Published in the magazines “Volga”, “Znamya”, “Floors”, and the collection of stories “What Happiness!” Winner of the Znamya magazine award and the Lyceum 2022 award for young writers. Ilya Rudnev is a talented pediatric intensive care doctor. He stubbornly, sometimes without hope of success, fights for fragile lives. This is not just work - Rudnev has personal scores to settle with death. A year ago, on the same day, he lost his wife and son. Rudnev tries to lose himself in his work, to emerge from the feeling of guilt, and this almost succeeds, but one day an ambulance brings to the hospital a boy who looks exactly like his dead son..