About the book: 2022 / Four people gathered in a room. An old man investigating the murder of a young woman and three suspects: the victim's husband, her lover and the victim's best friend. The old man makes an unexpected statement: “I know who the killer is...” A new psychological thriller from the winner of the Russian Detective Award plunges us into the depths of the unconscious and leads us along the hard, broken lines of the human mind and heart. Is there a path to freedom from the shackles of our own soul, which time after time forces us to experience pain? And if there is, then why is it sometimes so scary??