About the book: 2020 / Jai lives in a basti - in the Indian slums of an unnamed city - with his parents and sister. Their life is shrouded in endless smog, poverty and difficulties, but Jai does not lose heart and, like any boy, always manages to find adventures. When children begin to mysteriously disappear in the basti, Jai and his friends decide to conduct their own investigation - after all, the police are inactive, and he has seen so many films about detectives that no one can handle this case better than him. Jai, Pari and Faiz interview witnesses, run around the bazaar and make guesses. But as the smog thickens, winter sets in, and the list of missing people grows, the atmosphere changes. Could it be that Jai himself will fall into a trap and the genies will take him away forever??