The book includes the story “Tomorrow's Concerns” and early stories written in 1950: “In the Morning Twilight”, “Icy Wires”, “Without End”, “The Last Flight”, “Draft”, “Petka, Jack and boys”, “The path to the pier”, “On the Siberian road”, “Go down and go up”, “Under water”, “If a comrade calls”, “Above the white crossroads”, “The Tale of Radio Operator Kamushkin”, “Two Women”, “The Last Night of the Bandit”, “From the Diary of a Boxer”. Foreword by A. Komaritsyn.