Schoolboy Marat Safarov sincerely believes in a bright future that is about to come, but instead he is experiencing the collapse of the USSR. The collapse of ideology and first love, the thirst for adrenaline and the new opportunities of the 90s. He is 18, full of strength and questions for the older generation. The hero is carried away by the whirlpool of events with which the stories of other people of that time are intertwined. Racketeering, new business, collapse of enterprises and the city market, which has become a platform for the development of entrepreneurship. And the people who survived those difficult but unforgettable years.