“Based on the article...” is a new novel by the remarkable writer and screenwriter Vladimir Kunin, the author of the epoch-making film story “Intergirl”, the classic of dissident humor - the novel “Ivanov and Rabinovich, or Ai gou tu Haifa!” and a series of novels about Kys - Martin the Cat, traveler and philosopher. Kunin tells the fascinating story of the relationship between two men, bright personalities: journalist-film writer Kirill Teplov and top-class counterfeiter, charismatic Rifkat Alimkhanov. Life always puts them on opposite sides of the barricade: one is a participant in the prosecution in the case of black marketeers in 1963, the other is the main accused .One, an indomitable womanizer and a talented creator, has a happy marriage and family, the other, the zone became his home for many years... But both of them are destined to meet in the end of their lives in Germany in the same hospital room and dot all the i’s.