Elena Chizhova is the author of the novels “The Time of Women”, “The Terracotta Old Woman”, “Lavra”, “Little Tsakhes”, “Half-Breed”. A man at the turning point of eras is the main thing in all of the prose writer’s novels: whether the action takes place in the sixties or during the years of perestroika. The novel “Orestes and Son” is the story of three generations of one St. Petersburg family: grandfather, father and son. Seventies. Orestes, a chemical scientist, faces a difficult choice: accept the offer of a mysterious organization and continue the work of his father (a talented chemist repressed in the thirties) or, as before, develop caramel essences? Anton, the son of Orestes, and his friends Inna and Ksenia - at first glance, ordinary Leningrad high school students. They intuitively understand that not everything is as they say on TV, and they want to know the truth...