Sixteen-year-old Marta climbed out of her boarding school window, walked onto the highway, and started hitchhiking. A motorcyclist picked her up—and that's how it all began. Lost, she spends two weeks in the forest, searching for her. But her escape changes the lives of everyone involved: the motorcyclist, the investigative journalist, the village hunter who sets out to find her… ‘Rurik’ is the story of an escape; A novel about how everyone's life, ordinary and boring as it may be, can one day reach a crossroads on a country road, forcing them to choose which way to turn.