About the book: year / Yuri Alekseevich an ordinary school teacher. Every year he sees the underside of this sphere more and more clearly and begins to be indignant at what is happening. Yuri is fired from his job. And so, after another binge, he wakes up not in his bachelor apartment, but at the entrance to besieged Leningrad. Ahead of him is a long journey back, on which there will be love, and loss, and the terrible horrors of a distant war...