About the book: 1983 / Famous Soviet writer Lyubov Rudneva, author of the novels "Memory and Hope", "Crown Witness", "Strange Land" and others, her dedicated a new book to the problem of the creative community of scientists and sailors studying the World Ocean. The life of the hero of the novel, geophysicist Andrei Sherokhov, and his friend Captain Vetlin is closely intertwined with the fate of the mime clown Amo Gibarov. They are united by creative search, selfless service to people, the fight against inertia, stereotypes, and defenders of imaginary, petty-bourgeois values..