About the book: 2004 / Love knows no barriers or doubts, even war cannot break the connection between lovers. 1942 Two horsemen seek the love of young Aishat. One writes her passionate letters from the front. Another here in the village promises her mountains of gold when the Germans win the war. But the village is captured not by the Germans, but by the NKVD, who received an order to deport the Chechens. Aishat's trail was lost on the roads of Asia. How will the duel between the eternal rivals for her love end? Modern Moscow. The daughter of a wealthy Chechen businessman, Ayset, was raised abroad. After graduating from the University of London, his father orders Ayset to come to Moscow. She is horrified by the savage customs and cruelty that she has to face. Brought up on European concepts of personal freedom, Ayset is trying to break out of the framework into which her relatives are trying to place her, even at the cost of her life..