There is only one road leading to the Cul—de-sac - from neighboring Zhabinsk, through a dense forest inhabited by all kinds of evil spirits. There is no way to cross the river here — impassable swamps. A dead end, in a word. But the heroes of the novel, teenagers Yehuda-Leib and Blum, get out of a Dead End into a Distant Land — the land of demons and the dead. Each in his own way. But they will have to return home together. Despite the fact that no one returns from the House of Death…Gavriel Savit, based on the folklore of the Jews of Eastern Europe, wrote an exciting fantasy novel, a real gift to fans of the work of Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman.