About the book: 2023 / Is it possible to turn back time? The mysterious, ambitious hoaxer Gaustin believes it is possible. To this end, he opens the world's first “Return of the Past” center. This institution offers an unusual method of treating patients with Alzheimer's disease. Each floor of the building accurately reproduces a particular decade, allowing people to resurrect memories seemingly lost forever. As Gaustin's assistant, the narrator eagerly joins the game, starting to collect reliable fragments of the past - from furniture from the 1960s to buttons and shirts from the 1940s. x to nostalgia-inducing perfumes. But the more convincing the dramatization becomes, the more healthy people begin to turn to the clinic to break out of the impasse of everyday life - the future no longer attracts anyone, everyone wants to return to the past. Events are rapidly acquiring an uncontrollable scale. Will the bold idea turn into a real disaster when states one day decide to rewrite history? This novel is about how to survive in an uncertain future. A poignant and tragicomic story about the temporary refuge that we seek in the past when the present is beyond our control.