The heroes of Maksud Ibragimbekov's story are outwardly unremarkable. Ordinary boys living ordinary boyish lives. Both their worries and problems are the same as everyone else’s: mutual understanding (often misunderstanding) with family and friends, falling in love, searching for their place in the class, in the company, in life. At first glance, this is typical “teenage” prose, where everything is familiar and predictable. But as soon as the reader finds a place for this book in the circle of his reading ideas, the plot seems to break loose, the didactic short story turns into a drama, the heroes are no longer occupied by boyish rivalry, but by a genuine struggle for life - someone else’s, but which has become close and dear, as if it were their own.