Ivan Ivak is a Ukrainian writer with a dark past. The work he published during the Soviet era have fallen into disrepute, and his wife and children despise the very books that once supported them all comfortably. Old and now ill, he is determined: to tell the truth about his life as an agent in the secret police—the dreaded NKVD. Ivan knows too much about the oppression and cruelty of those times, and his last wish is to repent—for he also knows that his repentance is necessary if his children are to have a future.
Ivan knows too much about the oppression and cruelty of the Soviet era, and his last wish is to repent—for he also knows his repentance is necessary if his children are to have a future.
