Masha, a student at the capital's Faculty of Philology, is sent to Sakhalin Island by her grandmother to sell the old family apartment. A diary containing her great-grandmother Ksenia's secrets and the damp coastal sand tell Masha about the forced wanderings of the women in her family. The heroine's ancestors emerged from the Gulf of Patience, but patience has ceased to be a virtue.

A book that gives hope that feminine strength will overcome any destruction.