Marina Scryabina's sentimental novels are known to a wide range of readers. Including a criminal component in the plot is the author’s first experience. But the feeling of the correctness and logic of the world, no matter what terrible tragedies lurk in it, remained the main idea. And good wins, as in other novels by Scriabina, because goodness is inherent in a person from birth. The conflict between fathers and sons, and here the conflict between mother and daughter, who by the will of fate find themselves on opposite sides of the barricades, will not leave anyone indifferent... If the established During perestroika, adult brains were boiling from the collapse of the Soviet Union, imaginary democracy and the revelations of the “GULAG Archipelago”, from the sexual revolution, bandit revelry and drugs that came out of the underground, then the fragile souls of teenagers flew straight to hell. And the children of perestroika are not at all to blame for the fact that drugs have become their style and meaning of life. They are a lost generation, whose appearance will still echo a century later, like the consequences of the Great Patriotic War, which wiped out millions of human lives. Perestroika turned out to be no less destructive than the war.