Writer, publicist and defender of the rights of prisoners P. A. Stovbchaty (born in 1955 in Odessa) is a man of complex and difficult fate. He knows prison and camp life firsthand - P. Stovbchaty spent more than eighteen years in prison in the Urals. Currently lives and works in Ukraine. This book is not a figment of the author's imagination. Everything written in it is true.

“Am I afraid to be released after eighteen years of imprisonment, am I used to prison? I'm scared. It’s scary, because soon I’ll have to join the World of Evil…” “Yes, I’m used to a bunk, a barracks, wretchedness, grief, need, observation, equality and inequality at the same time. The absence of a woman, the impossibility of love (just feelings), self-expression, communication were the most difficult and painful..." "Does prison spoil? Yes and no. If you dream of having, getting high, living only at the expense of others, spoil it. If you want to find yourself, find the meaning of life, then no..."Pavel Stovbchaty