About the book: 2023 / The artist inherits a huge stack of photographs depicting one giant chestnut. A student dies from an electric shock, but is resurrected by ghosts from air and light. A scientist makes a discovery that trees are able to communicate with each other. During the Vietnam War, a soldier thrown from a downed plane by an explosion survives falling into the branches of a banyan tree. All these people and five more strangers are gradually finding out that there is another world next to us - huge, slow, interconnected and almost invisible to humans. This is the story of those who have learned to see this world, and now they are called upon to protect it from imminent disaster, knowing that there is practically no chance of success. The design uses an illustration by Vasily Polovtsev.