The main character is 13-year-old Luka Tatishvili, who worked as a volunteer in Tbilisi Zoo before the flood. Luka used to go there every day after school and look after the birds and visit the other animals too. The zoo quickly became a very important part of his life. It was a place where he could ecape from the enclosed space of the tightly packed blocks of flats where he lived. On 13th June 2015 the city suffered a tragic flood, which cost many human lives. The zoo was almost totally destroyed and a lot of animals and birds drowned. The enclosed space proved to be problematic and fatal for the zoo's inhabitants.