This story by Hamid Ismailov is set in contemporary Russia amid the mass migration of impoverished labourers from former Soviet Central Asian republics. A highly regarded Uzbek sculptor who has integrated into Moscow’s artistic community over a period of fifty years tries to distance himself from his heritage. Unfortunately, a phone call seeking help from an unscrupulous nephew he has never seen upends his comfortable life and costs him a large cache of money he had secreted away from his wife. Themes include displacement, denial, cultural identity, family duty, grift, guilt.