About the book: 2022 / Gleb Chernov, a once promising artist, left Russia for America in search of fortune and fame. He did not become a famous artist, he forgot about painting, but he organized his life according to high standards of comfort. The woman he once loved remained in Moscow. And then, unexpectedly, this woman’s twenty-year-old daughter comes to visit him in New York. And a tragic turning point occurs in Gleb’s life.