In the new author's collection, the master of intellectual prose Ephraim Bauch included short stories written in different years. But they contain history. History of the country, history of the era. The story of a man - a student, a young mining engineer, an aspiring writer. A story of formation, faith, disappointment... A student, who was ready to be “sent” to the Festival of Youth and Students in 1957, 20 years later, on a train taking him away from the country of origin, from the USSR, as it seemed forever, writes down poems: Farewell, country former idols, Gone behind the stage, Country of fiscals without uniforms, But with the stigmata of shoulder straps. Perhaps in the folds of Judea I will hide from your eyes with the fire of a “sublime idea” Burning in the faces of the executioners. He left to return years later with his books.