Impressions of rural childhood, youth, mature years, ocean roads - Nikolai Denisov traveled half the world on merchant ships - the main theme of the work of the Tyumen poet and prose writer. The new book includes works written in recent years. In the satirical story “Fire Dangerous Period”, published in the magazine “Ural”, noticed by critics and readers, the pictures and action of the first years of “perestroika” are easily visible. The stories - about love, about fidelity, human duty, about the destinies of contemporaries - are imbued with lyricism, warm feelings. “The Roaring Forties” is a documentary story about one of the sea voyages to South America.