In the early twentieth century. The name of the writer Mykhailo Ivchenko (1890–1939) was well known, but the totalitarian system removed him from the history of Ukrainian literature for almost six decades. A complete edition of the artist's legacy is a matter of the future.
The book includes prose published in the first two collections of M. Ivchenko's "Spring Noises" and "Misty River". The central image of these works was a man who, in a difficult era of social upheavals, revolutionary transformations, immerses himself in his own experiences and feels the paradox of a new reality in which he can not find a place for himself. The main conflict arises on the basis of the gap between the ideal and reality, purpose and result ("Veksha", "From the days of the field"). The writer approaches the new reality not with social, but with moral and ethical criteria. M. Ivchenko's "Earths Are Ringing" and the novel "Labor Forces".