About the book: 2016 / 1950. A caravan of a lighter with fishermen and a barge-prison sets off for the North along the great Siberian river. But fatally, an ordinary flight turns into a road of death: a young prisoner, shot while trying to escape, drowns, a soldier-escort and his would-be mistress, the young daughter of the barge skipper, die. In the end, the unwitting “snipers” - the skipper of the lighter and his niece Marusa - manage to track down and destroy the traitor-murderer... The ending of the story “The Life of Klim Gordeev” is no less tragic. And it’s not just about the passing of the heroes of the story: honor and faith leave life, and love becomes a crime.