Publisher's Synopsis
This is the tragicomic story of a successful young architect, Fyodor, the reluctant single father of an adolescent son with Down syndrome. The son is a constant embarrassment to Fyodor, who relies on his own parents to take care of him. But then a fatal car crash and the accidental discovery of a mystical painting, 'Petroleum Venus', force this self-involved father to ultimately embrace his troubled son, his parents' moral values, and the real things in life.
