About the book: year / A romantic story with a tense plot, the action of which develops in two intersecting layers - in modern times and in 1944. The mystery of the mystical secret is intertwined with the intrigues of fascist intelligence, and the modern woman comes back to memories of her previous incarnation. And, of course, love... The artist Verochka, who arrived in Brussels, sees in the ruins of a flea market a portrait of a young woman taken in 1944 by a famous photographer. Then even her mother was not in the world, but Vera’s eyes look out from the portrait and her face smiles at the new century. Vera begins an investigation and ends up with a strange fortune teller, who reveals her true destiny: she is a Wanderer - a person going through a chain of reincarnations. The artist begins to be haunted by episodes that clearly relate to her past incarnation, when she, Anna Gras, the daughter of a literature professor at the University of Brussels and a Jewish woman, becomes the lover of photographer Michel Tissot. It is he who photographs his beloved, dreaming of the future. But it’s 1944, and the Nazis are in charge in Belgium. A pair of lovers faces difficult trials. It turns out that Michel is a Soviet intelligence officer who has been working in the fascist rear for a long time. Having learned about his connection with Anna, management orders Michel to remove the girl. But he is thinking of a different move. However, the resident of Soviet intelligence, not trusting Michel, sets a trap. Anna and Michelle die...Verochka meets a strange Russian in Brussels who is clearly following her. This is a man conducting an investigation into an old military episode, for which his grandfather, a resident of Soviet intelligence in Brussels, was found guilty. Step by step, not trusting their visions and increasingly immersed in the past, they together restore the tangled history of Michel and Anna, in the finale no longer doubting that fate brought them together again - in a different incarnation, colored by the reflection of past love..