"A Handful of Soil" is about people who, after going through pain and suffering, preserved their language, culture, and traditions. The book is based on real events and historical facts. The names have been changed, but none of the characters are fictional. This book tells us that the past really never was the past. Events that seemed to be gone in the past years suddenly burst into the normal flow of life. The day comes when you have to answer questions, first of all, for "Who am I? Where am I from? What's my destiny on this earth?" Events in this book are happening in the USA and Ukraine. This book is about collisions between different views on life and different cultures. "A Handful of Soil" is about choices when, on one side of the scale, there is money, and on the other, there is something elusive that makes us not animals but humans. What path the person picks in any part of his life depends not only on how his fate would form but also on the fate of his native people. This book is about love, about "… to see the true reflections of a woman don't look in the mirror, but look in the eyes of a man". The romance, A Handful of Soil, isn't only about Ukraine's past but also about its future. The country's rebirth will be possible only when people start to respect themselves, their pasts, and the roots, traditions, and beliefs of their native people. "A Handful of Soil" is dedicated to the people who left their native land and couldn't return home.