About the book: 2022 / All his life, the forest was Leon’s best friend - and suddenly in one hour it became an evil, insidious and cruel enemy. And how can you say otherwise, when a whole flock of birds circles above the trees with an ominous cry, when vile bats swoop down on people, and a terrible unknown creature plunges sharp fangs into you! Only his own mother, the local Aibolit, who knows the forest inhabitants like the back of her hand, can help Leon, but lately she has become somehow strange. “She knows something about all this,” Leon thinks and decides to enter the mysterious barn , where the mother disappears for days on end. With a sinking heart he opens the door to the unknown and with a trembling hand...