The novel by the Serbian writer and playwright Svetlana Velmar-Yankovic (1933-2014) immerses in the history of the Belgrade family of intellectuals of 1920-1980. The narration is conducted in the first person. This is the story of the painful search for a life path, choice and responsibility for it, love and betrayal. Lagum in the novel is not only minefields, underground passages and catacombs under the Belgrade fortress of Kalemegdan, through which fugitives once escaped from the persecution of the Turks, but also a state of impending hopeless darkness and a metaphor of an intimate space in which you can hide from the terrible cataclysms of reality. The publication is addressed to everyone interested in modern Slavic prose.