About the book: 2006 / Autumn 1944, an abandoned Ukrainian village in the wilderness. The front rolled back to the west, but Bandera gangs remained in the forests. One of them has to be dealt with by a fighter of the extermination battalion, a former intelligence officer who was discharged from the army due to injury... A film was made based on the novel at the film studio named after. Dovzhenko in 1976.