An extremely frank confession of a man whose youth was in the 70s of the last century. This is a generation of “boys” whose best years were spent at the break between eras. The reader will accompany the hero along his entire path - from an ordinary boy from the street in a Leningrad “sleeping bag” to one of the prominent figures in post-perestroika St. Petersburg journalism. The dull melancholy of the times of stagnation, the chaos of the “era of change,” youthful romance, friendship, love, turning to faith... But the author does not hide the negative moments of his life, talking about them with sincerity, all the more surprising since this entire book is based on true facts and tells about real people.