A young mantravels from Georgia to Karabakh, a contested region between Armenia andAzerbaijan, in order to buy cheap drugs. Taken prisoner first by the Azeris andthen by the Armenians, he spends long enough away from home that he finds heisn’t really in such a hurry to escape. Is there anything waiting for him backhome, so soon after the end of Georgia’s own war, where he’s weighed down by analcoholic father and a pregnant girlfriend his family will never accept? Whatis freedom, and might it be enjoyed just as well in captivity as at large? Oneof the best-selling novels ever released in Georgia, and the basis for twofeature films, this is a book about the tricky business of finding—anddefining—liberty.