About the book: 2019 / How did it happen that the lives of three teenagers who dreamed of entering the Omsk Higher Police School turned out so differently? Why did one of them build a stellar career, the second created a successful business, and the third remained a capable opera? Do children pay for the sins of their parents? At what stage does the scale of fate tip in one direction or another? When you seduced someone else's girlfriend, took the first bribe, ordered the murder of a blackmailer, or shot your best friend? The heroes of the novel are looking for answers to difficult questions.