Night. A blizzard is breaking out. The road skids and the car gets stuck. The convoy faces a dilemma: either, with a high degree of probability, everyone will freeze to death, or take a risk and release “prisoners” who can push the car out. As they say, according to the law or... Trying to save a frostbitten accordionist from death, his old acquaintance “listener” immediately falls dead, struck by the “vigilant” line of the sergeant who had “looked askance” at him even before. “For what?” the question froze. - bewilderment in the dead lips. After all, he just wanted to save these “accordion fingers” for humanity. The idea of the work categorically states that if the “listener” had been given a condition “from above”: “don’t save the boy and you will remain alive,” exactly what would have happened anyway happened. A person remains himself no matter what he is wearing today.