Asta Fung is 16 years old and yearning for the past. To her great dismay, her parents have moved her family in order to run a Chinese takeaway in another town. But when she discovers her late grandfather Charlie's love letters, Asta embarks on a journey to find Charlie's mysterious lost love...
Winter, 1953. Along with Sergeant Lidia Gerashvili, and Major Nikitin, the interrogator who once cut off Rossel's fingers, Rossel sets off on the trail of a murderer whose crimes surpass those of even the deranged tsar Ivan the Terrible. A trail leading to a dark, hidden episode in Bolshevik history filled with unspeakable horrors.