About the book: 2017 / A quiet town, lost in the mountains in northwestern France. Quiet life. But everything can change in an instant. Twelve-year-old Antoine accidentally sees a neighbor finishing off a mongrel that was hit by a car. Deeply shocked, the teenager goes into the forest, deciding to hide in his hut between the branches of a beech tree. For some reason, his powerless rage falls on his neighbor’s son, little Rene, who tagged along behind him. An accidental blow turns out to be fatal. Antoine, gripped by panic, realizes that as soon as he is exposed, his whole life will be destroyed. He hides Rene's body under the roots of a fallen tree and for the next two days, paralyzed with fear, awaits arrest. It seems that the ring around him is about to close. But an unforeseen event occurs that completely changes the situation... For the first time in Russian.