A moving novel about hard work and self-improvement. Three intertwined stories set against a backdrop of war in the USSR, Nepal, and Ukraine.

A world heavyweight champion boxer, born in the vast expanses of the former USSR, fights for his country. A young Nepalese girl from the foothills of the Himalayas, who became a child soldier, reaches the top of the endurance race scene and wins the Mont Blanc Marathon. Like so many other residents, a woman hides in an air-raid shelter on the outskirts of Mariupol to escape Russian airstrikes... Three characters in search of freedom, three indomitable souls whose paths inevitably cross, driven by a furious desire to live.