Gorbachev’s perestroika is rapidly gaining momentum, the country is changing right before our eyes. But crime is not decreasing, though it is taking on unusual forms. One of the boys’ grandmother died. Before the funeral, he and his friends went to the cemetery to inspect the grave pit, but instead of a freshly dug grave they found some kind of mound of clods thrown together at random...
Cursing the hooligans who had given them extra work, the boys began to dig out the filled-in pit and unexpectedly uncovered a long cardboard packing box, and in it — the corpse of a man wrapped in plastic film...