An evil feeling forever leaves a mark on a person’s life, but can it live in his soul for as long a time - a question that is posed by the purpose of this literature and will be examined using the example of the difficult teenager Voinov Gleb, who committed six crimes at the age of seventeen. He amuses himself, commits fights and robberies, and in general, regarding existence as a kind of war, he hardly thinks about what awaits him in the future. Meanwhile, a powerful future is coming: an educational colony, friendship, beatings, mental disorders and attempts to become a happy person.