Already there, in the promised lands, Sergei, who was undergoing rehabilitation, found out that his son was born. Irina named the boy Seryozha in honor of his father.

Sergey often looked at the dossier stored in the safe, collected once on the girl who interested him and since then has been replenished with enviable constancy.

With special trepidation, he treated the two photographs sent by Valera: one showed a red-haired girl stroking her rounded tummy with her palm, and on the other, she was holding a little boy in a brown overalls in her arms. The dark hairs of the child curled in large rings, and the swamp-colored eyes looked...