Life is so interestingly arranged. No soldier has as many commanders as the ordinary schoolboy. At home, it’s the parents who order. At school—teachers. Still, children are allowed certain things. They are allowed to be polite, obedient, quiet, modest, diligent—meaning, in reality, convenient and unnoticed. But the heroes of Yuri Tomin’s stories are nothing like that. Three friends from “Everything Is the Opposite Now”—Slavik, Yurka, and Galka—challenge their parents.