About the book: 2020 / Russia, 2009. A crisis is sweeping across the country, finishing off the remnants of Soviet industry and economy. Trackman Osip Prokhorovich Vetlugin, who worked all his life at the Vyshny Lozhok railway station, loses his job, and with it the whole world, which he carefully cherished and created for decades, the only world in which he could be happy and free. The tragedy of millions, the tragedy of an era and, above all, eternal errors and vices through the fate of one person.