About the book: 2024 / The main character of the novel, Tengiz, has been worried since his youth about how consciousness is formed inside us, forces us to act and come into contact with others. But he lacked knowledge, he went to college and found friends and comrades with similar interests there. Caring about one's own problems leads to the formation of groups, which sometimes take on the character of gangs, and sometimes - teams of like-minded people. Tengiz and his friends are trying to solve the problem not only theoretically, but also experimentally: they throw important information into a pre-selected group and monitor behavior. But then they encountered upheaval on a gigantic scale; the country broke up into several independent states. The collapse was perceived differently in Russia and in the republics. The turning point was complicated by the transition to market rails. Moral criteria have changed, the pantheon of folk heroes has been revised.