The book talks about writers who have become victims of unfounded accusations, as well as critics, authors of “revelatory” articles that the literary community has qualified as denunciations. When creating the book, the author was guided solely by good intentions - to acquit the unjustly accused or to find additional evidence to confirm the verdict that the literary community passed on the informer. The book mentions about fifty writers and critics, in particular: Babel, Erdman, Mandelstam, Pilnyak, Platonov, Sholokhov, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavsky, Kharms, Gaidar, Green, Kornilov, Berggolts, Bedny, Kovalenkov, Kuznetsov, Shaginyan, Nikulin, Koltsov, Lesyuchevsky, Elsberg.