The book tells how the hero of the work, an engineer, researcher, teacher at a famous Soviet university, is looking for his place in life. What trials does he have to go through to defend his views, his path? How he, his life and the lives of his friends change in the turbulent nineties. The author tells what happened in those years to people who thought they would devote their entire lives to engineering and scientific activities. Contains obscene language. Contains obscene language.