About the book: 1988 / Once upon a time there was Kostya Ivanov. Candidate of Sciences, husband and father. And then one day he decided to renovate the apartment. And he liked working with his hands. “Laughing and sticking out his tongue,” he took up carpentry and got a job at a factory, abandoning science. After all, there are so many interesting things in the world, you need to see everything, try it, feel like a man, the owner of the subsoil! “And there was light, and a man ran.” My wife receives money transfers from distant lands, but the news about Kostya is so frightening, and the letters from him become less and less frequent. And does he write them??