Post-war America. A grandmother and grand-dad of Вэнса move on a north from the district of Аппалачей in Kentucky in a hope on the best life. They succeed to force one's way through in a middle class. And to their grandchild - to act and finish the faculty of law of prestige university. But with every page the severe details of past life of heroes are opened. Alcoholism and наркозависимость, child's traumas, poverty and unemployment. With piercing sincerity and stake of humour Вэнс tells about life of the family in hopeless terms.Where to search an exit, when is all your life a long ago predefined?Support of near, the examples of success and good education helped a hero forever to get out from poverty. However the demons of the past until now interfere in his present.