This novel by Vil Lipatov, like the previous ones, is timely and passionately polemical. Its heroes are thirty-year-olds who were born after the war and are now stepping into leadership positions across different branches of the national economy. The novel is about the civic maturity of this generation and their sense of responsibility toward the state and toward the people—this is its main theme. The setting is a Siberian town in the 1970s.