About the book: 2015 / For the first time in Russian, a new novel by the famous Italian writer, screenwriter and actress Margaret Mazzantini "The Shining". Will we ever have the courage to be ourselves ?! – Mazzantini’s heroes ask themselves. Two boys, two men, two incredible destinies. The reader gradually, as if laying out pieces of a mosaic, learns the story of Guido and his childhood friend Costantino, and it becomes clear to him that the thread connecting them has turned into a steel wire stretched over a life-long abyss.