The book tells about writers who became victims of unfounded accusations, as well as about critics, authors of "revealing" articles, which the literary community qualified as denunciations. When creating the book, the author was guided by exceptionally good intentions - to acquit the unjustly accused or to find additional evidence to confirm the verdict that the literary community handed down to the informer. About fifty writers and critics are mentioned in the book, in particular: Babel, Erdman, Mandelstam, Pilnyak, Platonov, Sholokhov, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavsky, Kharms, Gaidar, Green, Kornilov, Bergholz, Poor, Kovalenkov, Kuznetsov, Shaginyan, Nikulin, Koltsov, Lesyuchevsky, Elsberg.