About the book: 2022 / 1847, Great Famine in Ireland. Hundreds of thousands of people die, tenants are driven off the land for non-payment, desperate peasants take revenge on the landowners. Everyone who manages to scrape together at least some amount of money tries to sail abroad, to America or Canada. On one of these ships, the Star of the Seas, completely different people meet. The aristocratic family of David Merridith, their nanny Mary, the unfortunate cripple Mulvey, who received orders to kill David, the American journalist Dixon. It turns out that the destinies of these fellow travelers are closely intertwined, and the dramatic ending of their journey turns out to be completely unexpected..