Renton has it all: handsome, young, with a pretty girl and a place at university. But in the 80s, the road to life turned out to be inaccessible to him. With Thatcher's rise to power, working class communities across Britain were destroyed, with educational opportunities and a sense of well-being gone. As Mark's family finds themselves at this point of crisis, his life spirals out of control and he increasingly hangs out in the darkest areas of Edinburgh. Here he finds the only way out of the situation - heroin. But this quagmire sucks in not only him, but also his friends. As Spud Murphy quits his job, Tommy Lawrence is slowly drawn into a life of petty crime and violence with thief Matty Connell and the mentally unstable Franco Begbie. It’s only on the head of a sick person to agree to live like this: to deceive, to fuss all his life. “Geronshchiki” is a kind of almanac that describes the path of heroes from boys to real men. Addiction to heroin destroyed them along with the disintegrating society. This is the 80s: a time of new drugs, poverty, AIDS, violence, political strife and hatred. But this is why we loved these years, these ten years that changed Britain forever. This is a prequel to the world-famous novel Trainspotting, an exciting book with an eternal flow of energy, full of black and salty humor, which is the main feature of Irvine Welsh.