About the book: year / The confrontation between Ossetians and Georgians has lasted for many years. In the first years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, blood was already shed here. And the boy, a soldier of the internal troops, thrown into the meat grinder of a fratricidal war between two peoples, saw with his own eyes all its horror and cruelty. However, bound by the order of the command not to succumb to provocations at that time, he could not do anything. Years have passed and now in his hands is not a machine gun, but an artist’s brush and palette, but fate again returns him to where helpless people in need once remained in his defense. Gives him a chance to act differently when faced with evil. The war in South Ossetia through the eyes of a civilian. Recorded from the story of a participant in the defense of Tskhinvali.