Maryna Hrymych's novel "Klavka" takes place in the Writers' Union of Ukraine and the Kyiv Writers' House ROLIT in 1947, when the infamous Plenum took place, known in history for the destruction of Ukrainian literature, in particular, the execution of Yurii Yanovskyi and Maksym Rylsky. But few people know that the massacre of these two classics was not limited to: Ukrainian writers - colleagues in pen, neighbors at home - were harassed by each other, taking advantage of their ambitions. The events' participants came out of the problematic ethical situation in different ways - some with their heads held high and smile on their faces, and some in shame and remorse until death.
Klavka, the secretary of the Union of Writers, knows everything about writers, and dramatic events occur before her eyes. At the same time, drastic changes are taking place in her rather monotonous life as an old maid: she finds herself in the center of a love triangle - between a responsible employee of the Central Committee of the CP(b)U and a young writer who has just returned from the front.
The literary life of the 1940s, post-war Kyiv, Yevbaz, and a communal apartment is the background against which the dynamic plot unfolds.
