About the book: 1983 / Using the example of the heroine of the story - Natasha Soldatova, we will see one of the rare characters in our literature of a teenage girl, overcoming the most difficult and dangerous things in her life life's path is a crossroads. Before her is a crossroads, dictating to her the need to choose one of two roads leading into the unknown distance. Her best childhood friend Alya Sharichenko, without any doubt, stepped and followed the easiest path. Reflecting on everything that she experienced in her short life, she decisively rejects Ali’s path and realizes that she is called to follow a different path - difficult, but honest. She is ashamed of the thought that “she has been walking on this earth for a long time, not knowing that she has already brought her share of good and evil to people” and that there was less good than evil. And then she will go along the road along which all those who cherish their native land and the “age-old, eternal heights” on it walk - heights akin to which are a person’s conscience, his bright mind and honor untainted by any selfishness. The story continues the author’s series “ Hello life».