Artyom Cech wrote again about the war — and again about the wrong one. That is, not about this one. Therefore, on the one hand," Song of the Open Road " can be considered as a genre-stylistic toy, an adventure-historical game in America. A former serf from a Ukrainian Village in the Russian Empire, caught in the epicenter of an American tragedy, eventually becomes the embodiment of the American dream. But, on the other — more serious — side, the path of the main character is open — this path away from Moscow, the path through war to freedom, the path from the Russian in the prologue to the Ukrainian in the epilogue. And from some point of view, it is easy to imagine a feature film based on this novel. A black-and-white film about a journey full of symbolic meanings from East to West, to yourself and your eternal home. And the soundtrack: words by Walt Whitman, music by Neil Young.