About the book: year / Russian teacher Alisa comes from the Far East to war-torn Grozny to work in a boarding school for disabled children. Trying to help children abandoned by everyone, she encounters politicians, soldiers, militants, trying to reach the soul of everyone. What helps her survive is her ability to heal, inherited from her great-grandmother, a healer. An influential official from the Chechen administration begins to patronize her, but Alice does not want to be a puppet in his hands.