Anna grew up in a noble family in a house on Bolshaya Morskaya. She leaves with her family to her mother's estate by the sea to survive the troubled time of the Civil War there. She has a long way to go to freedom in the most unfree time, the way to herself through the unfreedom of traditions, conventions and the horror of a bloody war. The revolution, the fierce confrontation between the Bolsheviks and the White Guards, the change of power, Petrograd, Crimea, Berlin, a fragile young woman, her daughters, her husband's wayward nephew, the wrong love that happened at the wrong time and a little wolf…The reader, who knows everything that will happen to the country next, can only worry about Anna, whether she will survive in this changing world, which has suddenly turned into a theater of melting shadows.A new novel by Elena Afanasyeva, whom Boris Akunin called "The Reverte Perez, who has mastered the Russian language perfectly."