The events described in the first book of the novel-duology “Road to Nowhere” end in 1935. In the second, a “time jump” occurs and the reader is transported to 1986, to the beginning of perestroika. The heroes of the novel are the descendants of the heroes of the first book and characters who have nothing to do with those events. The road to nowhere is a seventy-year experimental historical path that has tormented the entire Soviet people. They suffered at the behest of political adventurers who led the country off the universal “main road” onto an experimental “side road” in an attempt to “stand ahead of the rest” and to shoulder the heavy and thankless burden of being the leader of mankind.