This bundle of stories describes some specific events of tumultuous times of the twenties century. The plots of the stories are skillfully skimmed throughout different, well known locations and at the times, at which people involved, had been struggling with the adversity of their fates.

...returning home by long distance train, old and tired Alexander Vertynsky, a well known Russian singer is recalling his life career in Russia and in the West.

...the beginning of the World War II in the Polish city of Vilno, was presented from the perspective of a child.

...when the members of the White Russian black battalion in service of Hitler's Germany killed his wife and daughter in front of their home, JS escaped to the forest and joined the partisans.

... there were 'political' emigrants from the communist countries, who never knew why they emigrated in the first place, other than just to earn some money for a while.