An advertising agent returns to the remote Ukrainian province where he was born to take care of his brother's gas station, who has inexplicably disappeared into thin air. But all he finds are puzzles and ghosts. A crazy and full of energy novel, with Easy Rider atmospheres, which transforms the industrial landscape of eastern Ukraine, now torn by war, into a fantastic territory pervaded by a deep desire for freedom. Zadan takes us through the endless cornfields of his land, tells us about the invention of jazz by a mysterious anarchist, and with a literary rock star style he introduces us to a country that leaves the door open to all possibilities.