About the book: 2004 / Roman Vospennikov leaves his law practice and leaves the capital to take up painting in Krasny Yar. He lives in his uncle's family the life of a rural intellectual - he hunts woodcock, drinks liqueurs, listens to the philosophizing of local society about the nature of Russian kindness and free will. Having spontaneously rushed with a knife at the wolf, he could not know that this road would lead him to the forester's house and his adopted daughter Tatyana...