A story about extraordinary events and about extraordinary friendship in the most ordinary times: the eighties of the twentieth century and the sixties of the twenty-third century. Physics teacher Laertes Anatolyevich, having glimpsed a device for time transfer in two boys from the 23rd century, decides to build his own machine time. And he succeeds. It may not be so compact, but it can transport 12 people into the future. So, forward to the future!

First published in the magazine “Pioneer” No. 10,11 for 1990 with drawings by K. Batasheva