This book by a talented writer includes pictures of life—complex, full of drama—where people fight injustice sparing neither strength, nor nerves, nor their very fate. Mozhayev makes his contemporaries his heroes—hunters, log rafters, collective farmers, agronomists, artists, police officers, and people of many other professions. Mozhayev prefers to write about strong characters, subordinating his work, in both human and political terms, to the rejection of undemocratic forms of government and a call to live according to conscience.