On New Year's Eve, dramatic events unfold in the very center of Makhachkala: several people enter into a confrontation with a large construction company, law enforcement agencies and the city administration, protecting a tree - the tallest beech in Europe, which must be cut down in order to build an office center in its place. Agree, there is something in this story that is familiar to many ... Will a handful of daredevils manage to defend the tree and how will the lives of the heroes of history change in these few days - both positive and noteworthy villains? The new book by Islam Khanipaev, the winner of the Lyceum Literary Prize, the finalist of the NOS and National Bestseller awards, and the winner of the Yasnaya Polyana award for the story "Type I", is like a New Year's fairy tale: kind, as prescribed by the laws of the genre , sometimes funny, and sometimes sad to tears, but at the same time bitingly ironic and merciless to evil in all its manifestations.