The generation, born in a seemingly frozen era, found itself drawn into a kaleidoscope of incredible events and subjected to many tests, the main one of which was the test of newly acquired freedom. The fates of sixteen classmates who graduated from school in 1976 developed differently: some managed to successfully adapt to new times, becoming a politician or businessman, scientist or journalist, some drank themselves, some emigrated, some died in Chechnya , someone became a victim of a contract murder or an accident, someone was happy in love and personal life, someone suffered a cruel failure...