This novel is about how even the worst seeds of humanity cannot prevent goodness...

This novel is about the re-emergence of human life in a place that cannot even be found on a map, a place where no one has ever been. It is about humanity, with its art, its colors, its science, collaborating with nature, taking root again, maturing again.

This novel is about the strength and weaknesses of a woman, about motherhood. And not in an English-style nursery, but in a Siberian labor camp, in the hell created by one of the greatest evils in human history.