The striker of the Moscow Torpedo team and the Soviet Union national team, Eduard Streltsov (1937-1990), was rightly called a football genius, a truly people's footballer. He shone on football fields back in the late 1950s - and then, for a well-known and very unpleasant reason, he disappeared from the sight of millions of fans for five long years. But he found the strength to return - both to ordinary life and to football, becoming the best player in the country and one of the best football players in Europe. The author of the book traces step by step the life path of an outstanding player and a unique person, in whose fate, like a drop of water, the vicissitudes of the dramatic history of our country were reflected.