A plane with “USSR” written on its side approaches the point of no return. But there’s still hope that the absurd, unstoppable wheel of a state catastrophe can be stopped… If not by the will of the leaders, then by the resistance of combat officers. Along with new words—perestroika, glasnost—new people came to the Baltic states from the west, onto the weakening red empire’s land. Who are they?.. In the air, official triumphant marches are still sounding! But the strings of the officers’ guitar are “crying at last,” sending Mazur on his “last flight by the signs.”