Gennady Avramenko is a famous secular photographer, columnist for the MK-Boulevard magazine. But this is now, and in the early 90s he was... a real hippie. He wore long hair and moved around the former USSR exclusively by hitchhiking at a time when the whole country took a breath of freedom. And who knows more about freedom, who can talk about it better than hippies? The novel “Left Home” is a diary, six months and two weeks from the life of 18-year-old Ringo Zelenogradsky, who in 1992 travels through Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, lives for a long time in Crimea on the mysterious Mount Mangup, which stores ancient power. He is driven on the road by the desire to find “a new self, a new home, love, the damned meaning of life,” and it also forces him to return - to cities, mountains, seas. And to people. Because the main core of the novel is people. In the 18 years that have passed since then, they have found themselves and become successful directors, artists, journalists, and photographers. Everyone knows and respects them. But the most important changes that determined their fate and worldview happened to them at the time when they left home. This is a nostalgia novel, where the early 90s are reproduced in details, feelings, dreams.