If you shoot at the past with a pistol, it will shoot at you with a cannon... Journalist Kirill Sotnikov knows this proverb, but nevertheless constantly calls fire on himself. After all, it is in the past that the keys to the secrets of the present are kept. Here is the sincere and passionate confession of the dying Vadim Volokushin. A talented teacher could not control his talent or his fate. And only a closer look at the history of his life will give the correct answer. And the tragic story of the super-popular pop diva, the brilliant Zara Limanova, who disappeared among people without a trace? What led her to this outcome? Why are people hunting for her hidden diaries, stopping at nothing? The past is constantly looking at us, but we should not be afraid of it, says Kirill Sotnikov, because the fates of the people that you experienced as your own purify and elevate you.