A meeting with former classmates in the far-off year 1992 ended unexpectedly. The reason was a beautiful label on a bottle of spirits and the unclear contents inside—something that nearly sent a young man off to the next world.
All of Max’s life flashed before him, but—strangely—it wasn’t in decreasing order. He saw the events that are only destined to happen, learned a part of the future, though he still didn’t gain full information. In the space between life and death, he acquired certain skills. But the most important thing isn’t even that: Max got a chance to change his future and live an entirely different life—not the one he saw on the threshold of death. He even matured a plan for how to build his future next—only implementation remained. But will it work in the wild nineties? Will he manage it himself, and won’t his friends let him down?