Few writers know the real price of freedom as well as Igor Guberman knows it. Having received five years in the camps on a fabricated case in the late seventies, he dramatically changed his fate and was released, having acquired involuntary colossal life experience. In this book, the reader will find a selection of cycles of quatrains (gariks) from different years, united by the theme of freedom and responsibility for it. Full of uncensored irony, they still read today as a manifesto of a sincere person who has experienced life, but is not disillusioned with it.