Spring of the thirty-third year of the last century. The capital Kharkov is stunned by the news of the suicide of Pyotr Khorunzhy, a brilliant prose writer, an indomitable polemicist, and a literary leader of his generation. The suicide left neither a will nor a note, but his adopted daughter finds herself in the hands of the writer’s secret archive, in which he was able to predict with prophetic accuracy the fates of people close to him and look far into the future. These scattered, strange and sometimes painful records, a kind of mystical chronology of the era, deeply change the fates of those who happened to look into them... The novel by Svetlana and Andrei Klimov is not historical prose or memoir fiction, and most of its characters, as expected, are fictional . However, the authors had the opportunity to talk and exchange impressions with some of the characters. It turned out that this book is about love, except for which time has left nothing for the heroes, and that we should not trust the illusion that the world around us is rapidly changing.