About the book: year / Five years have passed since the blacksmith's mother Stepanida, together with her daughter-in-law Oksana, expelled the unlucky devil from the village. By that time, the young children had been born - a boy Alyosha and a girl Nastenka. And they turned out to be so difficult! Alyosha could sculpt any metal with his gaze, like plasticine - he was preparing to be his father’s assistant! Nastenka read in languages ​​that have probably already been forgotten on Earth. Only the devil did not live peacefully in his underworld. It seemed offensive to him to clean the closets of creditors. He planned revenge - to drive the blacksmith from the world. Even the thought that Nikola’s women were also all special did not stop him. I decided to overcome their strength with my cunning. He hatched the plan all these years, and then carried it out overnight, like clockwork. And, having committed a dirty trick, the devil dealt the blacksmith the final blow below the belt - he kidnapped his beloved children, without whom he could no longer imagine life. Deprived of women’s support, Nikola would have fallen into despair. But the responsibility for the children still turned out to be stronger, and he had to, risking his life, look for the only thread that led to the gates to hell…