The collection of the USSR State Prize and Lenin Komsomol Prize laureate Andrei Dementyev includes poems addressed to young people, as well as poems from books awarded these prizes. The poet tries to attract the attention of readers not only to what pleases and excites, but also to what causes anger and pain in each of us. The author's work is distinguished by an active civic position, a thirst for good, and an irreconcilable attitude towards evil. He looks at the world through the eyes of love - faithful, demanding and lofty. And uncompromising! In his poems, the poet tries to talk about the difficult times that kill and heal, offend and delight us. There can be no vaccinations against life - neither from its sorrows, nor from its disappointments. And the poet’s word is always complicity. Each of his poems is “like an outstretched hand to an invisible someone who at this moment needs support.”